Acting Monologue - Top Suggestions For A Successful Performance

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Acting Monologue - Top Suggestions For A Successful Performance
A monologue is any dramatic performance by a single actor representing a character and carried out to an audience. Actors utilize monologues as audition pieces, as showcase performances in their own right, or just to fine-tune their acting skills. No matter why you are preparing a monologue, the following ideas will help to guarantee that you provide your best performance:.

1. Find a reality. There is no single reality, every individual connects with a piece of writing in a different method, but you do need some connection. If a specific monologue doesn't 'speak' to you, if it doesn't say something to you, then choose a different one. No matter how technically competent you are, an audience will immediately notice when there is no reality in your performance.

2. Be heard. There are extremely few things that an audience will not forgive-- if you fall over, or if you forget a line, they'll forgive you. BUT ... if they cannot hear you, it doesn't matter how great the other elements of your performance, they will not forgive you. Clearness and audibility above all else.

3. Select for your audience. Select a monologue that is suitable for your audience in terms of length and kind of material. Numerous a great actor has been sunk by bad options.

4. Play to your strengths. Select a monologue that will show your strengths as an actor or will display specific skills. Showcase yourself. This is especially crucial if you are preparing a piece for an audition. Don't choose a piece that displays your comic skills if you're auditioning to play Oedipus.

5. Make it a total performance. Each monologue is a performance, and each performance must have structure and shape. You're on display from the moment you walk into the performance space up until you leave it. Always say a few words about the context, no matter how renowneded the piece you are carrying out. Always make it clear when your performance is ended.

6. Dig deep. The deeper you go into a piece, the more discoveries you will make and the richer your final performance will be. Often you can keep making discoveries in a piece of writing over a period of weeks, months or even years. So, be prepared-- start working on a variety of pieces well before you need them. Don't be frightened by the idea that you may become 'over rehearsed'-- there is no such thing.

7. Keep it easy. Though your performance must be deep, it must also be compact. Don't overload a short piece and try to display too many things at the same time. This applies to trying to communicate too many elements of the character and/or overwhelming your performance with too many quirks, props or gimmicks.

8. Be in the moment. This is the key to all great performance, not just monologues. It has to appear newly minted, as if your words are spontaneous and not well rehearsed.

9. Learn from feedback. When you're working on a piece, invite as much feedback as you can get. Discover ways to seriously evaluate this feedback and to learn from the helpful bits. You must be discovering all the time and utilizing feedback is one of the most effective methods of learning.

10. Have a good time. The most crucial thing of all. If you're delighting in the experience, delighting in the performance, then so will your audience. It's hard work to polish the performance of even the shortest speech, but there's nothing like the sense of achievement that it can bring. Have a good time, enjoy it, since if you don't, then what's the point?