Adam Monologue (Act 2, Scene 3)
Often overlooked both in the plays in which they live, and in real life are Shakespeare’s servants. Adam is senior servant to the De Boys family in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy, As You Like It. While...
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Constance Monologue (Act 3, Scene 4)
Though hidden in one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays, Constance is a character all actors wishing to tackle high stakes emotional text should seek to perform. And her speech in Act 3, scene 4, has...
Bottom Monologue (Act 5, Scene 1)
Ah, Pyramus. The likes of Romeo, Hamlet and Coriolanus have nothing on you when it comes to the deepest of tragedies which you suffer at the hands of fate. Cruelty was a dish which was...
Brutus Monologue (Act 2, Scene 1)
Though some of Shakespeare can be hard to access or seemingly old-fashioned and irrelevant to our needs and concerns today, many of his plays, characters and words are so relevant and applicable to our society...
10 Outstanding Film Performances Under 10 Minutes of Screen Time
If you ever had a tiny role in a high school play and dared to complain about your meagre number of lines, I suspect there was someone present who smugly put you in your place...
How to Read Shakespeare: 6 Techniques
William Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets and playwrights the world has ever seen. Certainly in the Western canon, his works are rivalled by few. For an actor, Shakespeare is the pinnacle of our...
Bottom Monologue (Act 4, Scene 1)
Ah, Nicholas Bottom. The Brad Pitt of his time. Also the Meryl Streep of his time. While he is busy being Brad and Meryl he’s also busy being the Phillip Seymour-Hoffman, the Daniel Day Lewis,...
Rosalind Monologue (Act 3, Scene 5)
Let’s take a look at one of Rosalind’s monologues from As You Like It. Rosalind is a great character to explore and only gets more fun throughout the play as she takes full flight. Rosalind...
Lady Anne Monologue (Act 1, Scene 2)
Allow me to start unpacking this monologue by paraphrasing a quote from George Bernard Shaw. Shaw wrote that a key to good drama was to take two characters who should never meet, and figure out...
King Claudius Monologue (Act 3, Scene 3)
Two powerful forces of storytelling operate in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: ambiguity and contradiction. For the first three acts of this play the audience has been going along for the ride with Hamlet, wondering whether or not...