An essential resource for actors participating in acting classes contests auditions and rehearsals culled from a list that has been the home of cutting edge drama for over twenty years. The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women collects over fifty speeches from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years and from the unique roster of the UK s leading independent drama publisher. Bringing together specially selected speeches by essential modern dramatists such as Linda Brogan Laura Wade David Foley Deborah Gearing Neil de Souza Glyn Maxwell Adriano Shaplin Dennis Kelly Neil Bartlett David Pownall Paul Jepson & Tony Parker Torben Betts Robert Shaw Fermin Cabal Tanika Gupta and Meredith Oakes The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women is a unique and useful resource for amateur student and professional actors alike participating in acting classes contests auditions and rehearsals. Edited by Catherine Weate the book is helpfully arranged according to age suitability - Teens Twenties Thirties Forty plus - and sets the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance context.
Catherine Weate / B.A. / Dip.Ed. / L.S.D.A. / F.R.S.A. has been coaching voice for over twenty years. She has been Head of Voice at Rose Bruford College Head of Voice and Vice Principal at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and Head of Examinations at LAMDA.
