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Scenes & Auditions Paperback: 224 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-108-5 MER123 $18.95 Scenes Include › Being a Woman › The Bully › Poetic Justice › The Secret › Alone on Prom Night › Facing the Enemy › Communication is the Key Scenes Keep Happening More Real-life Snapshots of Teen Lives By Mary Krell-Oishi Following on from “Scenes That Happen” and “More Scenes That Happen”, this book offers more scenes for students and professionals alike. Forty-eight true-to-life scenes for guys, girls, and mixed casts of between two to four actors, written as teens speak, with the drama and emotions of adolescence. The themes include bullying, dating, driving, clothes, sports, sibling rivalry, self-esteem, vanity, jobs, sex, responsibility, drugs, and more. Some scenes are humorous, others serious. The scenes contained within this work vary from five to ten minutes and are suitable for classroom or stage performance, and make excellent contest scripts. Paperback: 256 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-0-916260-65-1 MER146 $19.95 Scenes Include › Agnes Of God - John Pielmeier › Family Voices - Harold Pinter › Doonesbury - G.B. Trudeau › The Nerd - Eugene Ionesco › The Hat - David Mamet Mentone Educational Centre 215 Chesterville Road Moorabbin Victoria 3189 Paperback: 440 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-0-916260-89-7 MER137 $21.95 Chapters Include › Playing Classical Scenes › Playing Shakespearean Scenes › Playing Period Scenes › Playing Modern Scenes › Playing Absurd Scenes › Playing Contemporary Scenes › Playing Audition Scenes Playing Scenes – A Sourcebook for Performers How to Play Great Scenes from Contemporary and Classical Theatre By Gerald Lee Ratliff This collection of many of the world’s best scenes and monologues is more than just another scenebook. Each chapter includes discussion on playing the role, playing the style, and playing the performance. As part of the introduction to each chapter, there are creative vocal and physical exercises appropriate for each performance. The book includes a chapter on audition scenes and performance hints for many types of scenes. Some scenes included are from Oedipus (Sophocles), Cymbeline (Shakespeare), The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde), The Zoo Story (Albee), The Gap (Ionesco), The Author’s Voice (Greenberg), The Cherry Orchard (Chekov), Act Without Words (Beckett), and The Homecoming (Pinter). Classical scenes include hints for acting in historical perspective. An invaluable text for all acting students. Paperback: 416 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 9781-56608-024-8 MER314 $19.95 Chapters Include › Monologues › Scenes for Two Performers › Scenes for Three Performers › Scenes for Four or More Performers The Scenebook for Actors A Book of Selected Scenes from the World’s Leading Playwrights Edited By Norman A. Bert Somewhere in this book is one or several perfect monologues or dialogues for your audition. Short cuttings from some of the very best scenes in theatre yesterday and today. All selections are by leading international playwrights: Pinter, Goldsmith, Ionesco, Mamet and many more. Powerful moments. Some soft and quiet. Others strident and commanding. The choices are many. The book explains how to find the right audition monologue for your voice, your face, your style, your stage persona. Valuable tips on how to develop your audition monologue for performance and how to build a systematic file of scenes for your personal working. Norman A. Bert is a playwright and a full professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. repertoire. Paperback: 240 pages, 14 x 21.5cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-044-6 MER367 $21.95 Monologues Include › Oedipus the King – Oedipus › Prometheus Bound – Hermes › Cyrano de Bergerac – Cyrano › I Hate Hamlet – Andrew › Pirates of Penzance – Major-General’s Song › An Address on Dunkirk – Winston Churchill › A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift The Theatre Audition Book 144 Monologs from Contemporary, Modern, Period, Shakespeare and Classical Plays By Gerald Lee Ratliff The most comprehensive book of monologues ever! With 144 audition pieces, this handbook has a monologue for almost any audition situation. It’s important that the actor be inventive and imaginative in performing a monologue. This book shows students how to investigate dramatic and theatrical elements. The first two chapters provide a blueprint for preparing auditions and selecting audition materials. Each monologue also includes a character analysis. The monologues selected for audition performance are conveniently grouped in historical period from classical to contemporary. All are representative of competitive material found at auditions. This book is a valuable resource for audition material. Playing Scenes from Classic Literature Short Dramatizations from the Best of World Literature Edited By Joellen Bland The most fascinating characters from world literature step from the printed page into living portrayals for the stage or classroom. Key moments from the classics are seen and heard in dramatic form. Long John Silver, Sydney Carton, Jane Eyre, Huck-leberry Finn, Elizabeth Bennett, Jean Valjean, Don Quixote, Jo March, Cyrano deBergerac, and Hester Prynne perform “live” in monologues and short scenes. Each scene in the book is preambled by a short description of the events preceding and surrounding the scene itself. The book’s many scenes may be used for acting classes, literature classes, rehearsal work, and auditions. Joellen Bland is currently the Director of the Virginia Military Institute Theatre and a published freelance playwright known for her many adaptations of literary classics. Paperback: 304 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-088-0 MER022 $23.95 Chapters Include › The Fundamentals › The Auditions Context › Background Skills › Preparing the Audition › Cold Readings › Auditions and the Computer › Where Are You Going? The Complete Audition Book for Young Actors A Comprehensive Guide to Winning by Enhancing Acting Skills By Roger Ellis This text is not a typical shake-and-bake manual of quickie tips on how to do a good audition. No other book puts auditioning in the context of acting training like this one does. The nuts and bolts are all here, but this book will do much more. It will develop audition and acting skills in a systematic way over time, throughout the actor’s study and career. This book is first and foremost an acting text. It shows auditioning as another kind of acting performance, not a technical exercise or desperate attempt to highlight every skill or talent the actor possesses. It is a step-by-step guide for training young actors to audition well by developing acting skills. This book includes more than sixty relevant acting exercises or “explorations”, as well as fourteen sample audition pieces from contemporary playwrights and a wealth of other resource material. An all-encompassing audition text. 18 Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% Check our website for latest releases and pricing
Phone (03) 9553 3234 Fax (03) 9553 4562 Email sales@mentone-educational.com.au Web www.mentone-educational.com.au Paperback: 112 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-0-916260-25-5 MER003 $15.95 Monologues Include › Dropout › Engaging › Loser › Confession › Young Father › Music Lover › Movie Siren 57 Original Auditions for Actors A Workbook of Monologues for Professional and Nonprofessional Actors By Eddie Lawrence Any actor, professional or would-be professional, will enjoy the many characterization challenges this book offers. It’s a virtual treasure-house of interesting types staged in mini-play monologue format. For the actor, it’s a living picture gallery of drama. A wonderful library of characters for study and practice. Each audition is about two minutes long. A book for every actor’s bookshelf and suitcase. Comedian Eddie Lawrence’s diverse career has included working for NBC’s development staff with Woody Allen, recording nine albums, appearing on Broadway and in several movies, writing musicals and appearing on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show over 40 times. He lives in New York City. Scenes & Auditions/ Play Anthologies Paperback: 848 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-008-8 MER172 $58.95 Plays Include › Children of a Lesser God – Medoff › Largo Desolato – Havel › Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Williams › The Bald Soprano – Ionesco › A Doll’s House – Ibsen › The Tragedy of Othello – Shakespeare Theatre Alive! An Introductory Anthology of World Drama Edited By Norman A. Bert A major new anthology of world drama from many cultures. Sixteen famous plays by leading international playwrights. All major periods of theatre from classical to contemporary twentieth century. A well-researched introduction precedes each script offering fascinating historical orientation. Recommended as an exceptional text for theatre classes. It presents the entire globe of theatre history – “where we’ve been and where we’re going.” “A strong anthology which demonstrates the different passages of world theatre, including the complete text of famous plays which would otherwise prove difficult to locate.” – Bookwatch Paperback: 424 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-065-1 MER044 $19.95 Plays Include › Salmonberry: A West Coast Fairy Tale › Skin and Bones › Blood Lines › City of Gold › Race › Hunger International Plays for Young Audiences Contemporary Works from Leading Playwrights Edited by Roger Ellis This valuable book covers a selection of plays, both serious and comic, drawn from works of great contemporary playwrights. This unique anthology of complete plays is directed specifically to young audiences. The topics reflect globalization and cultural conflicts, and bring the attention of readers to the emerging global culture. Many diverse nations are represented in these plays including African-American, Native American, Australian, Pakistani, Jewish, East Indian and more. Roger Ellis is an author and editor of ten books in theatre, plus numerous articles, essays and short stories. He has worked professionally as actor or director with various Michigan and California theatres. Currently he is a Professor of Theatre at Grand Valley State University. Paperback: 568 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-081-1 MER046 $23.95 Plays Include › Turtle Island Blues › Highest Mountain, Fastest River › This Land › Crying for Time › Back Where You Belong › A Single Numberless Death New International Plays for Young Audiences Plays of Cultural Conflict Edited by Roger Ellis A new anthology of complete and current plays, both comic and dramatic, aimed at young audiences. Selected because of their cultural implications and contemporary significance, the plays in this collection reflect globalisation, cultural imperialism and stereotyping. Many societies are represented within the plays including: Australian, New Zealander, Italian, Croatian, Irish, Argentinean, Maori and more. This anthology is suitable for literary, drama, multicultural, speech or language classes or for other theatrical applications. Paperback: 312 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-087-3 MER187 $23.95 Plays Include › Ledge - William Borden › Wheelchair Blues - James I. Schempp › He/She/It? - Jan Baross › A Ringing in My Ears - Debra Bruch › Bookworm - John O’Brien › Marla, You’re On - Julianne Bernstein Paperback: 248 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-084-2 MER025 $23.95 Chapters Include › Scripts › Securing Rights for Production › Rehearsing the Play › Book List More One-Act Plays for Acting Students An Anthology of Short One-Act Plays for One to Three Actors Edited By Norman A. Bert and Deb Bert The success of One-Act Plays for Acting Students prompted this follow-up theatre book of twenty-five contemporary short dramas by nationally-known playwrights. Each play has a production time of ten to fifteen minutes, yet each script is a complete work - no cuttings. Twenty-three contemporary playwrights are represented, including William Borden, Julianne Bernstein, and Bryan Harnetiaux. Also featured are sections on securing rights for your production and rehearsing the play, and a booklist of rehearsal helps. www.mentone-educational.com.au Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% New One-Act Plays for Acting Students A New Anthology of 25 Complete One-act Plays for One to Three Actors Edited by Deb and Norman A. Bert This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes 15 scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologues and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avant garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use. Husband and wife team, Deb Bert and Norman A. Bert, are both established playwrights. In addition, Norman is a full professor at Texas Tech University and Deb is a casting agent for movies and TV commercials 19
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