The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens Volume 12: 111 One-Minute Monologues - Just Comedy!
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Hello, actors! As a professional actor for fourteen years now, I know how hard the search for the perfect monologue can be. A monologue should be immediate, active, and fun. You shouldn't mind having to say it over and over when you're practicing, auditioning, or performing it. You should be able to relate to it. This is difficult; most plays are written for adults. Where are you supposed to get monologues from then? This book. Here are some tips on appraoching monologues: 1. Pick the monologue that hits you. Trust your instincts. You'll pick the right one. 2. Make the monologues active. What do you want and how do you try to get it? 3. Who are you talking to and where are they? Make sure you make this as clear as possible. 4. Do you get answered or interrupted? Be sure to fill in words in yoru head for the monolouge, even if it's a simple yes or no. 5. How do you feel about the person or people you are talking to? For example, you speak a lot differently to your best friend than you do to your math teacher. 6. Notes about stage directions and terminology: The word beat or the start of a new paragraph indicates another character speaks or a new idea arises. Pause or other stage directions like shocked are suggestions, but do not need to be observed absolutely.
Kristen Dabrowski
KRISTEN DABROWSKI is a writer, actress, teacher, and director residing in New York City. Her books with Smith and Kraus include The Ultimate Monologue Book for Middle School Actors Volume I: 111 One-Minute Monologues, The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens Volume III: 111 One-Minute Monologues, Twenty 10-Minute Plays for Teens Volume 1 , the Teens Speak Series (four books), and the educational 10+Play Series (six books). She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Actors Equity.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I'm not sure If Dabrowski has any experience teaching and working with teens, but the material in this book implies she doesn't. Beyond the fact that the monologues aren't written very well, and beyond the fact that the characters and situations are clichéd and unoriginal, further problems include style and language. Language-wise, I have to say that I wouldn't be comfortable keeping this book on a shelf in my classroom. Inappropriate language is one thing if it's a word here or there, And included within a longer work that is itself worthwhile. Here, there are repeated inappropriate words, most if not all of them gratuitous and unnecessary. Simply, even though they're supposedly written for teens, I'd have to edit many of these before feeling comfortable with giving them to my students.And then there's style. Many of these monologues aren't what I would call useful monologues. They all but require another person to be present for the entirety of the monologue...and, while no lines are shown for the other person(s), these omissions come off as awkward. Many of the monologues read more like one side of a simple and unentertaining skit instead of a monologue. In the end, I was incredibly disappointed with this work. I had middle-schoolers try their hands at writing their own monologues last year, and I have to say: every one of them was better and more entertaining than anything in this book. True, the spelling might have needed some work...but they were far better monologues than what I've found here. I can't imagine recommending this book, or making use of more than 3 or 4 of the 111 "monologues" presented here.
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The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens Volume 12 - Kristen Dabrowski
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Introduction
Hello, actors! As a professional actor for fourteen years now, I know how hard the search for the perfect monologue can be. A monologue should be immediate, active, and fun. You shouldn’t mind having to say it over and over when you’re practicing, auditioning, or performing it. You should be able to relate to it. This is difficult; most plays are written for adults. Where are you supposed to get monologues from then? This book.
Here are some tips on approaching monologues:
Pick the monologue that hits you. Trust your instincts. You’ll pick the right one!
Make the monologues active. What do you want and how do you try to get it?
Who are you talking to and where are they? Make sure you make this as clear as possible.
Do you get answered or interrupted? Be sure to fill in words in your head for the moments when you are spoken to in the monologue, even if it’s a simple yes or no.
How do you feel about the person or people you are talking to? For example, you speak a lot differently to your best friend than you do to your math teacher.
Notes about stage directions and terminology: The word beat or the start of a new paragraph indicates another character speaks or a new idea arises. Pause or other stage directions like shocked are suggestions, but do not need to be observed absolutely.
Final note: I absolutely encourage you to make strong character choices (how you walk and talk, and so forth). Comedy is best when it’s rooted in real feeling, but the energy and character choices are bold. Once you’ve made character decisions, commit to your choices; don’t hold back!
Enjoy!
Kristen Dabrowski
Female Monologues
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THE END OF THE WORLD
LAILA
Did you hear this? I just saw a commercial where they say that video games are a bigger industry now than the movies. How sick is that? At least the movies are social. Like you go to them with your friends or on a date. Well, I guess you can play video games with other people. But don’t most people sit alone and, like, try to get to the next level or get the golden cup or whatever?
Plus, this brings up a whole new level of scariness. If video games are such a huge business, it occurs to me that maybe the whole world is being taken over by geeks. I mean, the human race is going to die out completely if this is where we’re headed. We are surrounded by geeks alone in their smelly bedrooms playing video games! And these geeks are obviously converting possible normal and cute guys into their evil web of gaming. They don’t need human contact. They don’t need girls. We are doomed. I am so depressed. Seriously.
LONG LOST
JULIA
Hi! Oh my God. It’s been ages since I saw you! How are you? Oh my God, I can’t believe I ran into you! I was saying to Jessie just the other day, What ever happened to Melissa? She went to another school and just disappeared.
Hey, your hair is so different. I almost didn’t recognize you. It’s a little weird. What made you decide to go with green? And your eyes are … are you wearing contacts?
Um, oh my God, you’re not Melissa, are you? Oh my God, this is so embarrassing! I’m so sorry! I don’t know what I was thinking; I mean, I just really miss her. We were like best friends. And then she just went poof! You know? And I thought, Did I do something to her?
I mean, I always thought we were best friends, and you just look a lot like her …
You’re her sister? Oh! I knew it! You totally look similar. So, anyway … uh, tell her I said hi. Not all the other stuff, OK? Just hi. Oh, and I love the green hair. I was just saying that ’cause, well, you know. She’s being a total jerk, and I completely hate her.
So tell her to call me, OK?
SECRETS AND LIES
PARKER
Ella, come in here! Shh! Don’t say anything. I have to show you something. But you can’t say anything. OK? Swear? OK. Look.
Shh! What did I tell you? Don’t say anything. You have to help me figure out what to do. I spilled some nail polish on the rug, so I poured some nail polish remover on it. And then the stain spread and changed the color. So I started looking around and I got some lemon juice from the fridge ’cause the nail polish remover was stinking and it seemed like a good idea, but then the rug turned yellowish-white. So then I started thinking about what would make it brown again, and, I don’t know, I guess I’m crazy, but I was desperate, so Dad’s shoe polish seemed like a good idea. Anyhow, I’ve got a huge mess here that just keeps getting worse and worse and Mom and Dad are going to kill me! What should I do?
Chocolate sauce? How in the world would that help? I should have known you’d be too little to help. That doesn’t make any sense. Never mind. I’ll just tell Mom and Dad you did it.
I was just kidding! Stop crying. Jeez!
HOT
CLAIRE
No, I didn’t hook up with him. I don’t even like him, Evan! I like you. I love you. You know I do. I don’t know why you’d say something like that. You really are being paranoid. Look, I danced with my girlfriends, too. You don’t think I hooked up with them, do you? So, see? It makes no sense.
I don’t know