Actors' Audition Speeches

Jean Marlow, with her co-director Eamonn Jones, has run The Actors' Theatre School in London for several years and is an experienced actress and teacher. All the selections in this book have been tried and tested by her students.

* Preface * About Auditioning * What auditioners look for: Rumu Sen Gupta, Don Taylor, Sophie Marshall, Gillian Diamond, Gerry O'Hara, Richard Callanan, Allan Foenander, Peter Aldersley * Audition speeches: Blood Relations, Sharon Pollock Boesman and Lena, Athol Fugard Breezeblock Park, Willy Russell The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov The Country Wife, William Wycherley Cymbeline, William Shakespeare Daughters of Venice, Don Taylor Dead Dad Dog, John McKay Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller The Devil's Disciple, George Bernard Shaw Diff'rent, Eugene O'Neill A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen An Echo in the Bone, Dennis Scott An Echo in the Bone, Dennis Scott Five Finger Exercise, Peter Shaffer Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen Good Morning Miss Millie, Aldwyn Bully Happy Jack, John Godber Hello and Goodbye, Athol Fugard Hindle Wakes, Stanley Houghton Hippolytus, Euripides Kennedy's Children, Robert Patrick King John, William Shakespeare Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill Luther, John Osborne A Map of the World, David Hare A Map of the World, David Hare A Map of the World, David Hare Master Harold and the Boys, Athol Fugard Master Harold and the Boys, Athol Fugard The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare Night and Day, Tom Stoppard Night and Day, Tom Stoppard Night Must Fall, Emlyn Williams Nil Carborundum, Henry Livings Once a Catholic, Mary O'Malley Once a Catholic, Mary O'Malley Orpheus Descending, Tennessee Williams Philadelphia, Here I Come! Brian Friel The Playboy of the Western World, JM Synge A Prayer for My Daughter, Thomas Babe Retreat from Moscow, Don Taylor The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan Ross, Terence Rattigan Rutherford and Son, Githa Sowerby Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Frank McGuinness Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Frank McGuinness Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare * Useful Addresses * Copyright Holders