Workbooks and Assessment Tasks

Learners Manual

• Learners Manual Year One 2021

CUAMPF302 – Prepare for performances

• CUSMPF302A Prepare for performances WORKBOOK

Speech Exercises and Scripts

The following are just some different accent work scripts, speech exercises and other sonnets, scripts and poetry you can use to practice reading aloud, pronunciation and work for cold reads in auditions.

Monologues

• Chris (Tomorrow When the War Began)
• The Dancer

Duologues

• Alex and Brodie (Home and Away)
• Andy and Mark
• Brett and Natalie
• Cal and Boge (Conspiracy 365)
• Cal and Boge 2 (Conspiracy 365)
• Cal and Repro (Conspiracy 365)
• Fergus McPhail
• Flat Top
• Late for School
• Luke and Danni
• Madge and Charlene (Neighbours)
• Michelle and Bianca
• Renee and Saskia
• Renee and Saskia 2
• Tom and Griff (Conspiracy 365)
• Toby and Gloria
• Nina and Taj
• Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left

More Character Scenes

• Blue Water High
• Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Accent Work Scripts

• A Man About the House – John Perry – Italian
•  A Song of Sixpence – Ian Hay – Scotch
• Alibi – Agatha Christie – French
• Devonshire Cream – Eden Phillpotts – Devonshire
• Heaven Charing Cross – Aubrey Danvers-Walker – Cockney
• Land of My Fathers – Jack Jones – Welsh
• More Accent Plays
• The Adding Machine – Elmer Rice – American

Novel Excerpts

• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles DickensAlice in Wonderland – Carroll Lewis
• Alice in Wonderland – Carroll Lewis
• Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
• The Death of Tomorrow – Unknown
• The Iron Man – Ted Hughes
• Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas

Poetry

• A Christmas Carol – Fred Cogswell
• Broom – Basil Dowling
• Catch Rhymes
• Chester Carol – Unknown
• Christ Child – Henry Treece
• Click Go The Shears – Rolf Harris
• Conform – Unknown
• Crow Hill – Ted Hughes
• Daffodils – William Wordsworth
• Esther the Witch – Susan Burke, Pauline Kember, Lynton York
• Gus The Theatre Cat – T. S. Eliot
• If – Rudyard Kipling
• Knight and Lady – Unknown
• Last Snow – Andrew Young
• Macavity (Cats) – T. S. Elliot
• Mary’s Carol – Ted Walker
• Moonless Darkness Stands Between – Gerad Manley Hopkins
• My Country – Dorothy Mackellar
• Night Shapes – Paddy Kinsale
• Out Here on my Own – Unknown
• Overheard On A Saltmarsh – Harold Monro
• Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Prayer Before Birth – Louis Macneice
• Rain From Nowhere – Murray Hartin
• Sink Song – J. A. Lindon
• Sister Stephanie and the Gang – Doug MacLeod
• Sleet – Norman MacCaig
• Snake – David Herbert Lawrence
• Snow – Edward Thomas
• Snow – W. H. Longfellow
• Snow in the Suburbs – Thomas Hardy
• Snow Overnight – Stephen Roxburgh Longwill
• Somewhere – Unknown
• Spider – Unknown
• Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
• Thaw – Edward Thomas
• The Akond of Swat – Edward Lear
• The Dark Stable – Patric Dickinson
• The Hag – Robert Herrick
• The Jackdaw of Rheims – Richard Harris Barham
• The Journey of Magi – T. S. Eliot
• The King’s Spectacles – James Gibdon
• The Last of His Tribe – Henry Kendall
• The Listeners – Walter De La Mare
• The Naming of Cats – T. S. Elliot
• The Owl and the Pussy Cat – Edward Lear
• The Oxen – Thomas Hardy
• The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Ride-By-Nights – Walter De La Mare
• The Rose – Unknown
• The Saucy Sailor – English Folksong
• The Snowflake – Walter De La Mare
• The Witches Song – William Shakespeare
• The Yak – Jack Prelutsky

Scripts 

• A Man For All Seasons – Sir Thomas More
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare – Scene 1, Act 1
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare – Scene 2, Act 3
• Blood Wedding – Federico García Lorca 2
• Blood Wedding – Federico García Lorca
• Bushfire – Unknown
• Coriolanus – William Shakespeare
• Female Monologues
• Hamlet – William Shakespeare – Scene 1, Act 2
• Hamlet – William Shakespeare – Scene 2, Act 2
• Helen and Jane – Unknown  
• Henry VIII – William Shakespeare
• Julius Cæsar – William Shakespeare
• King Arthur – The Wizard of Oz
• King John – William Shakespeare
• Macbeth – The Witches – William Shakespeare
• Macbeth – William Shakespeare
• Mourning Becomes Elektra – Eugene O’Heill
• Our Town – Emily – Thorton Wilder
• Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus
• Prometheus Bound – Prometheus – Aeschylus
• Somebody Speak To Me – Unknown
• The Diary of Anne Frank – Francis Goorich and Albert Hackett
• The Merchant of Venice, Duologue – William Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice, Female Monologue – William Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice, Male Monologue – William Shakespeare
• The Tempest – Miranda – William Shakespeare
• The Tempest – Prospero – William Shakespeare
• The Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
• The Witches – David Wood
• Top Silk – David Williamson
• What’s the Buzz – Jesus Christ Super Star

Sonnets

• Sonnet 18 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 32 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 33 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 34 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 35 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 36 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 109 – William Shakespeare

Speech Training

• A Light Night
• Articulation Exercises
• Breath Control
• I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King
• Sh and S Sounds
• Speech Exercises
• The Basics
• Tongue Twisters
• Tongue, Jaw and Palate Exercises
• Vowel Sounds
• Word Practice
• Vocal Exercises