Loving to Audition: The Audition Workbook for Actors (Career Development Series)

Acting coach Larry Silverberg takes two monologues--one for a man, one for a woman--from John Patrick Shanley's Savage in Limbo, and proceeds for 147 pages to dissect every word, every possible layer of meaning, every possible angle of approach, to show how a master actor would interpret the speeches at an audition. Silverberg supplies so many techniques for climbing inside the brief texts that any actor with the presence of mind to recall a tenth of them in the heat of a real-life audition would have the basis for ample calm confidence. This is a really useful guide for absorbing text quickly--whether for performer or audience.