THEA 433: Studio 10 -- Auditions (Cabus)

Inspiration for audition materials can from many places.  Maybe you've seen a play you thought was great, and had good passages spoken by one person.  Great!  Look that play up in OneSearch (as detailed below).

If you don't have a play in mind already, you can start with a monologue book.  Browse the shelves in Bracken Library around the call number PN2080, located on the east side of the third floor to see the monologue books we own.

Once you find a monologue you're interested in, you need to read the entire play it came from.  To find the play, take the title of it and the author's name and search in OneSearch.

Famous plays will be easier to find, like "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen.  This shows a search on the Advanced Search page of OneSearch, using the drop-down menus on the left to specify the title and author:

More contemporary plays will be more difficult, and likely will need to be requested from another library through Interlibrary Loan.

To find "Muswell Hill" by Torben Betts, we can do a similar search on the Advanced Search page of OneSearch:

We didn't find any results.  However, OneSearch suggests we could search outside of our library's collection.  We can click on that link to perform a search beyond what the Ball State libraries own.

And we end up finding one result.

Although we do not have immediate access to this book (physically or electronically), we can request a copy through Interlibrary Loan.  To do that, we'll click on the title, to bring the whole record up.

Then we'll scroll down a bit, and look for "Links."  Just below that, we'll click on "Request the item with interlibrary Loan."

We'll be prompted to type in our Ball State username and password, and then brought to an Interlibrary Loan Book Request form already mostly filled out, like this:

Choose a date you'd prefer that the the play delivered to you by, and scroll down and choose "Submit Request."  You will be emailed when your book is available for you to pick up at the Library Information Desk in Bracken.  This is likely to take at least a week, and possibly longer.

Some contemporary plays will not be found in OneSearch, even after choosing to search beyond our library collection.

In that case, we'll need to use a bigger database, called WorldCat that allows you to search through thousands and thousands of libraries around the world.

When I was unable to find an information on the play "Deadeye" by Amber Lone, I went to WorldCat and searched like this, using the drop-down menus to choose "Title" and "Author."

Often there are many versions of a title, just depending on how each library has it entered into their system.

Click on one of the titles, to bring the full record up.

Then look down below "Get This Item" and click on the link that says "Request via interlibrary loan."

You may be prompted to log in with your Ball State username and password, and then you'll be brought to the Interlibrary Loan Book Request page, with most of the information filled out (as outlined above -- refer up above for more details).