Helena Monologue (Act 1 Scene 1)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the first Shakespeare play I ever watched. Reflecting on it now I see that this early experience of fairies, mystical forests, and young love, of which I am sure I...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the first Shakespeare play I ever watched. Reflecting on it now I see that this early experience of fairies, mystical forests, and young love, of which I am sure I...
By this stage in the play, King Lear has been through a rough ride. And yes, you could argue Lear brought it on himself, but whichever way you look at it, this old man is...
The story of Romeo and Juliet seems sowed into our collective consciousness. This classic Shakespearean tragedy has been retold countless times, and remains one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. This tale of young love gone...
Arguably Juliet’s most famous monologue from Romeo And Juliet, this short excerpt is a classic audition piece for actors everywhere. Juliet implores the gods and nature itself to bring in nightfall so that she might...
Cordelia: “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave…” King Lear. Arguably Shakespeare’s greatest work and considered by many to be one of the finest pieces of English literature and it’s certainly a gift for any...
Finding monologues is tough. As actors, we want something that isn’t too long, or too short, well written, but not too well known, and most of all we want something we connect with. Finding a...
The other day I saw an acting website advertising a package where you pay a certain amount of money to get 37 Twitter handles of top casting directors. I can promise you one thing –...
All actors want more auditions. Ok, some of us probably would prefer to never audition again and just get offered the damn role, but generally speaking more auditions lead to more roles. So here are...
As actors we understand the feeling of inertia. Our career stagnates and it seems like there is nothing we can do to get things moving. Curled up in our beds, desperate for clues, we start...
Being an actor is tough. We all know how competitive it is, and that if we are not at the top of our game, our chance of booking work is slim. We know that having...