LAMDA monologue help
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:53 pm
We are struggling to find LAMDA monologues for a 15 year old girl for her Grade 6. They have to be from a play that is available as she has to have read the whole play.
The main issue we are having is appropriate content, not only of the extract chosen, but the whole play. We want to steer clear of Shakespeare just for the moment and regional dialect isn't a strong point. She has a tendency to go for more modern pieces but of course for Grade 6 she has to choose something pre-1960.
I have tried to explain that it isn't just about what she likes at this Stage, it is something with enough depth that she can do justice do. She likes an extract from Wuthering Heights that has come from a colleagues own audition folder but it was just adapted from the novel and it HAS to come from a published play (up to Grade 5 it is permissable to adapt from a novel).
To give you an idea of what she has done before for her Grade 5 she did Scream if you want to go faster and The power of the Dog, for Grade 4 she did a piece I can't remember the name of but it was about a girl who was paralysed in an accident, and Six Primroses Each.
She got a distinction at Grade 5 so we want her to do well again. She is the first student I have had who has got to that level, she started when she was just 10.
The main issue we are having is appropriate content, not only of the extract chosen, but the whole play. We want to steer clear of Shakespeare just for the moment and regional dialect isn't a strong point. She has a tendency to go for more modern pieces but of course for Grade 6 she has to choose something pre-1960.
I have tried to explain that it isn't just about what she likes at this Stage, it is something with enough depth that she can do justice do. She likes an extract from Wuthering Heights that has come from a colleagues own audition folder but it was just adapted from the novel and it HAS to come from a published play (up to Grade 5 it is permissable to adapt from a novel).
To give you an idea of what she has done before for her Grade 5 she did Scream if you want to go faster and The power of the Dog, for Grade 4 she did a piece I can't remember the name of but it was about a girl who was paralysed in an accident, and Six Primroses Each.
She got a distinction at Grade 5 so we want her to do well again. She is the first student I have had who has got to that level, she started when she was just 10.