Bonjour! Female, 24, soprano/mezzo.
Okay, so I've decided I really need to build up an audition portfolio, and it's going to be from scratch. I'm okay working out songs but I'm less certain about monologues. I want to avoid getting monologues exclusively from books of monologues, for reasons I'm sure I don't need to go into.
First: for modern monologues, can anyone suggest any plays that have some good monologues? I'd really rather have the monologues in the context of the play, and as already said, I want to avoid monologue lists as far as possible. So personal recommendations are particularly welcome here.
Second: for classical monologues, I'd like to gather some up that *aren't* Shakespeare. Especially from similar sortos of Jacobean playwrights. Any recommendations there?
Third: for Shakespearean monologues, can you recommend any lesser-done but still awesome ones?
Yeahhh... like I said, I'm starting from scratch, but I really will appreciate any and all help I can get. :)