Auditions for Actors

Auditions for Actors 

In this unit we will look at monologues and techniques to prepare us for auditions that we that we will have for Drama School and University. 


This unit will help me find the right the monologue for Auditions we looked at our playing age and I discover mine to be between the ages of 18 year old to 30 years old  so with this it  help me out, I had to find six monologues three contemporary and three classical which I could take with me to an audition but I also need to take in to a count that some of the University/Drama School will give me a choice of monologues that I need to choice from to perform. 

The three Contemporary Monologues that i have chosen are....
1. Blue/Orange By Joe Penhall 
   The character of Robert

2. Shopping and Fucking By Mark Ravenhill 
    The character of Mark 

3. Fading Joy By Walter Wykes 
    The character of Eddie

The three Classical Monologues that I have chosen are ......

1. As You Like It By William Shakespeare  
    The character of Jaques 


2.The Casket Comedy By Titus Macclus Plautus 
   The character of Alcesimarchus 


3. Mr. Paul Pry By Douglas William Jerrold 
    The character of Oldbutton 



The plot of the play which the monologue has come from and why did I chose this monologue...

                                                  Blue/Orange By Joe Penhall
The play is set in a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator, a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. Blue/Orange is an incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service.
I choose this Monologue when I was reading it in a book it took me attentions as I found it funny and as well I could read the madness of the characters. 

                                        Shopping and Fucking By Mark Ravenhill
There are many central Themes that this play talk about which are the sexual violence and what is possible if consumerism supersedes all other moral codes. To this effect everything, including sex, violence and drugs, is reduced to a mere transaction in an age where shopping centres are the new cathedrals of Western consumerism.

Aspects of consumerism and sexuality rampant in popular culture recur throughout the play: drugs, shoplifting, phone sex, prostitution, anal sex, and oral sex in the London department store Harvey Nichols. 

I choose this Monologue as I found it different for others that I looked at, but at first it was the title of the play that due me in to want to read it, then once I had read it I found it funny and entertaining and it was some new to try.

     Fading Joy By Walter Wykes

The Play is about a young woman finds herself caught up in the intoxicating world of a smooth-talking salesman. When he flees to escape a mysterious group known only as "The Tall Men," she finds it impossible to go back to her old way of life. Not only has she changed in some inexplicable way, but the landscape itself has taken on a strange and menacing new personality. 

I choose this Monologue as when I was reading it just got me more intrested in why was the character on the beech and what he was doing I couldn't stop reading it I just want to find out what the character was doing. 



                                            As You Like It By William Shakespeare
The play is set Duchy in France but most of the play takes place in a forest called The Forest of Arden, The Forest region