Monologues are an essential part of every actorrsquo;s toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry; showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the bestselling first volume (2008); this book showcases selected monologues from some of the finest modern plays by some of todayrsquo;s leading contemporary playwrights. These monologues contain a diverse range of quirky and memorable characters that cross cultural and historical boundaries. The pieces are helpfully organised into age-specific groups: lsquo;Teensrsquo;; lsquo;Twentiesrsquo;; lsquo;Thirtiesrsquo; and lsquo;Forties plusrsquo;.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Good for beginning design students.By Tilan ChanI am a Interior Design professor at a state college; and I have used this book in my Studio 1 for sometime. This book provides a really good way of introducing basic visual compositional theories to students; especially for beginning students. Some have said that the book is of no value and that it presents an old way of looking at product design. Well; thats just sad; and let me tell you why.There are two kinds of problems in the world; ill-defined and well defined. 1+1=2: this is thought of as a well defined problem; the answer will always be 2. Design is subjective for the most part; and for a single problem there might be multiple answers; there are no perfect or no one answer for a design problem. Different people have provided methods of simplifying a design problem; making it easy for a designer to frame a design problem. One of the methods of framing and thinking about design problems are provided in this book. The idea of Dominant; Subdominant and Subordinant; is easy to understand for students. I believe that this book should be read by every design student (Interior Design; Architecture; PD; Industrial. Design etc.) Sure; it might not be of much value for a seasoned designer. Using this book with practical exercises is my recommendation.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great Content; Lousy Publisher Execution.By connie T. HerrellThe book content deserves 5 stars; but the publisher gets only 2. Its as if the publisher decided to shrink the book size by 20% to keep their costs down. The type is too small and not easy to read. Reading this book is like trying to read on a very crowded train. Not relaxing; difficult to focus on anything on the page. Good luck with that. I hope there are used books with larger type that exist.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A good introductory book to the issues of design in the tridimensional space.By Inti BurgosItrsquo;s a book that describes a design program introduction developed by Rowena Reed Kostellow; a remarkable North American designer in the twentieth century. The book is composed by six parts at which a biographical approach and a practical description is done in order to explain the development of the socalled ldquo;Foundation programrdquo;. The biographic parts are based upon interviews done with many students and collaborators of Mrs. Rowena. I think the book is good from the pragmatic point of view because of the complete series of exercises planned in a logic sequence; from the basics to the complex. Nevertheless; from the general point of view I guess it is a bit exaggerated the treatment given to the main character Mrs. Kostellow; as a kind of chosen one of the design; making by a parallel comparison; a stuff of mystic work of the design. Anyway I think this book have a great potential to be used as a constant source of inspiration and hint in the solution of design problems related with aesthetics issues.