Selected from the Restoration period and the Age of Reason, these selections go from monologues for women, including All for love or the world well lost and The misanthrope, to monologues for men, including The beggar's opera and The school for scandal.

"All the elements of preparing a monologue audition - script analysis, staging, voice, timing, gesture, movement and self-presentation skills - are thoroughly explored here. The goal of the book, as Ms. Kohlhaas states in her Introduction, is not only to help you prepare for auditions, but to make working on monologues a regular and enjoyable part of your acting life. As you follow the author along the path she charts, you are not only learning to rehearse monologues effectively, you are learning to turn auditions into exciting ways to grow and challenge yourself as an actor."--BOOK JACKET.

57 great audition pieces for women from the 1994 theatrical season.

The seventh volume of America's best-selling monologue series for women. All monologues are excerpted from plays produced during the 1998 theatrical season.

Another volume of this best-selling scene book. All scenes are excerpted from the plays from the 1995 theatrical season. Includes selections from: The Ends of The Earth, Molly Sweeny, Lesbian's Last Pizza, Losers of the Big Picture, Slaughter City, Yankee Kugel, and Fragments. Playwright/Editor Jocelyn A. Beard, a veteran of NYU's film school and the Yale School of Drama, has edited almost forty monologue books for Smith and Kraus. Her Screenplay, Igor and the Lunatics, was made into a feature film and subsequently listed in Heavy Metal magazine as "One of the 10 Sleaziest Movies Ever Made!" Notwithstanding, Jocelyn lives in an old haunted house in the Hudson River Valley with her husband, Kevin Kitowski, their beautiful daughter, Blythe, and lots of dogs.