Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Men (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback))

Auditioners often complain of seeing the same speeches over and over again. In Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Men, Simon Dunmore has drawn on his experience as a director to select and edit a collection of fascinating, fresh, and unusual speeches from Shakespeare's plays.

Dunmore brings together fifty speeches for men from plays frequently ignored such as Titus Andronicus, Pericles, and Love's Labours Lost. It also includes good, but over-looked speeches from the more popular plays such as Octavius Caesar from Antony and Cleopatra, Leontes from The Winter's Tale and Buckingham from Richard III. With character descriptions, brief explanations of the context, and notes on obscure words, phrases and references, it is the perfect source for a unique audition.