Audition Speeches for Young Actors 16+

*Acknowledgements

*Preface

*Introduction

*Why Go To Drama School (Tim Reynolds, Academy Drama School; Roland Rees, Director; Robert Croucher, President of American Academy of Arts)

*Developing Extra Skills (Tona de Brett, singing coach; Sylvia Carson, actress and choreographer)

*More About Auditioning (Anji Carroll, casting director; Gabrielle Dawes, deputy casting director at National Theatre)

*Out On Your Own (Alan Ayckbourn; Vicky Ireland, Artistic Director, Polka Theatre; Jonathon Siddall, Artistic Director, Hampstead Theatre)

*Advice From The Actors (Pat Keen, Michael Conrad, Rebecca Callard)

*A Word About the Speeches (Choosing a speech; Shakespeare's Plays; Valeria King, Head of Drama at Laine Theatre Arts)

*Audition Speeches for Men

Wint Selby, Ah! Wilderness

Guy Bennett, Another Country

Serpent, Back to Methuselah

Freddie, A Brief History of Helen of Troy or Everything Will Be Different

Morgan Evans, The Corn is Green

Honey, Cressida

Billy, The Cripple of Inishmaan

Sloane, Entertaining Mr Sloane

Steve, Flatmates

Tom, The Glass Menagerie

Youngblood, Jitney

Raleigh, Journey's End

Harry, Love On The Dole

Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Moses, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur'an

The Templar, Nathan the Wise

Mark, New Boy

Romeo, Romeo and Juliet

Lee, School Play

Tony Lumpkin, She Stoops to Conquer

Oggy Moxon, Teechers

Dog, The Wtich of Edmonton

*Audition Speeches for Women

Agnes, Agnes of God

Lulu, All the Ordinary Angels

Joni, Ancient Lights

Charlotte, A Brief History of Helen of Troy or Everything Will Be Different

Grusha, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Nicola, City of Sugar

Margaret Knox, Fanny's First Play

Lynn, Flatmates

Mabel Chiltern, An Ideal Husband

Rena, Jitney

Angela, Like a Virgin

Girleen, The Lonesome West

Sally, Love on the Dole

Frankie, Member of the Wedding

Mercy, Mercy Fine

Frehia, Mercy Fine

Rachel, Nathan the Wise

Carol, Oleanna

Mary Mooney, Once A Catholic

Sally Stokes, The Passing-Out Parade

Eliza Doolittle, Pygmalion

Lucy, The Rivals

Juliet, Romeo and Juliet

Charlie, School Play

Heavenly, Sweet Bird of Youth

Ruby, When We Are Married

Lue, The Winterling

Tina, The Woman Before

*More Ideas for Speeches for Men

Mozart, Amadeus

Carl, Madame Melville

Derek, Once A Catholic

George, Presence

Andi, The Woman Before

*More Ideas for Speeches for Women

Linda, Enter a Free Man

Pearl, House and Garden

Elke, Presence

Maire, Translations

Pace, The Trestle at Pope Lick Park

*Useful Addresses

*Copyright Holders