Shakespeare Alive!: 2-minute Speeches And Monologues For Study, Audition, And Performance (Monologue Audition Series)
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Review Highly recommended which is unusual in many respects. -- Stage Directions Magazine, March 2005Olster and Hamilton provide acting and auditioning advice, the results make this one of the best books of its kind. -- Stage Directions Magazine, March 2005 Read more About the Author Fredi Olster and Rick Hamilton have acted in sixty productions of Shakespeare’s plays, as well as appearing in film and on television. Their extensive experience in regional repertory theater includes several seasons at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, where Fredi was Kate and Rick was Tranio in Bill Ball’s widely acclaimed production of The Taming of the Shrew, which was televised for Theatre in America (PBS). They spent several seasons with the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Alley Theatre, and the Dallas Shakespeare Festival, among others. Rick has directed for the Commonweal Theatre Company in Minnesota, the California Theatre Center, Shakespeare in the Park in Fort Worth, the Pacific Repertory Theater, and the New Play Festival/OSFA. Rick and Fredi have coauthored for Smith and Kraus a best-selling series for beginning Shakespeare actors titled Discovering Shakespeare: Workbooks for Students and Teachers. Books in the series are A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. Read more
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This is very useful for anyone teaching young folks, and you have the option of using the modern language. This can be a great first step in getting them into Shakespeare.