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Never
again do the same old monologue
everyone else is doing!
“Mr. Forward’s
workshops made Shakespeare
accessible, exciting and fun.
I saw grown actors diving for dictionaries
and tasting text as if for the first time.
If you want a clear direct way to untangle text, his method
works.
If you want to get excited about Shakespeare,
Geoffrey will take you there.”
Workshop Actor
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REVIEW
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER
May/June 1999
PERFORMING ARTS
Complete Shakespeare Monologues For Women
Geoffrey G. Forward. Published by: Forward Co., 2123 N. Topanga
Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA 90290, (310) 455-9400, www.shakespeare-usa.com;
$14.95, paper, 175 pages; 0-944200-08-7 (1999).
Geoffrey G. Forward is the Founder and
Director of The Los Angeles Shakespeare Company, and is himself
a Shakespearean actor, director, scholar and teacher. He has
published a number of successful books on diction and speech,
and a recent scholarly discovery of his was featured in The
Shakespeare Quarterly.
All of this knowledge and experience is
evident in The Complete Shakespeare Monologues
For Women. Forward has a crisp, well-defined authorial voice
that is both challenging and reassuring. He realistically
sets out the challenges of performing Shakespeare, but all
along instills in the reader the confidence that they can
master the form. What sets this book apart from other similar
publications is that Forward is able to completely forsake
literary scholarship and approach the subject in purely theatrical
terms. Every point in the book is thoroughly concentrated
on performance, even when he is encouraging interpretation.
The book includes a lucid explanation of
iambic pentameter, an excellent bibliography and a functional
index section. All in all an eminently useful volume.
Postscript: Forward excises two potentially
offensive lines from the monologues. His moral concern is
admirable, but it is a dangerous, and unnecessary thing to
start changing history to accommodate contemporary consciousness.
— Vincent Asaro
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The Complete Shakespeare
Comedy and Dramatic
Monologues
for
Women
Looking
for a Great Shakespearean Monologue?
In
this remarkable book you will find more Shakespeare
monologues than you dreamed were possible --
old favorites and fresh, new discoveries.
Shakespearean actor, director teacher, scholar, author, Geoffrey
G. Forward,
draws on more than twenty years of experience to help you
find just the right monologue for you!
Looking
for Help on Acting Shakespeare?
New and experienced actors will benefit from
these insights
on how to choose a monologue, how to analyze it,
how to memorize it, and how to perform it!
In this book, you will discover:
- All the Shakespeare monologues of women, not just a
few
- Monologues indexed by age -- young, middle age, older
- Monologues categorized as Comedy or Dramatic
- Monologues labeled Verse or Prose
New and Experienced Actors will appreciate
these additional aids to acting:
Take control. Put the coaching you find in The
Complete Shakespeare Comedy and Dramatic Monologues for Women
to work for you. Excel in your next Shakespeare audition.
After all, it's your career. Be your best!
About the Author
Geoffrey g. Forward is a Shakespearean actor,
director and teacher. He is the founder and artistic director
of The Los Angeles Shakespeare Company and for over
twenty years has been teaching professional actors how to
perform Shakespeare, in The Actor's Shakespeare Workshop,
Los Angeles. He is the author of several books on Voice and
Speech and has been published in the prestigious Shakespeare
Quarterly.
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