The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women

Author: Catherine Weate
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849436215
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Monologues are an essential part of every actor’s toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry, showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the bestselling first volume (2008), this book showcases selected monologues from some of the finest modern plays by some of today’s leading contemporary playwrights. These monologues contain a diverse range of quirky and memorable characters that cross cultural and historical boundaries. The pieces are helpfully organised into age-specific groups: ‘Teens’, ‘Twenties’, ‘Thirties’ and ‘Forties plus’.

The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men

Author: Catherine Weate
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849436053
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry, showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the bestselling first volume (2008), this book showcases selected monologues from some of the finest modern plays by some of today's leading contemporary playwrights. These monologues contain a diverse range of quirky and memorable characters that cross cultural and historical boundaries. The pieces are helpfully organised into age-specific groups: 'Teens', 'Twenties', 'Thirties' and 'Forties plus'.

The Oberon Book of Modern Duologues

Author: Catherine Weate
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781840028287
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
The Oberon Book of Modern Duologues brings together over fifty extracts from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years, from the unique roster of the UK’s leading independent drama publisher. With specially selected dialogues by essential modern dramatists such as Meredith Oakes, Laura Wade, Chris O’Connell, Torben Betts, Lisa Evans, Howard Barker, Richard Bean, and Tanika Gupta, The Oberon Book of Modern Duologues 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 gender suitability – Female/Female, Male/Male, Female/Male – and sets the plays and extracts in their dramatic and performance context.

Modern Voice

Author: Catherine Weate
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849435375
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
Modern Voice: Working with Actors on Contemporary Text has been designed to follow on from Catherine’s previous book, Classic Voice: Working with Actors on Vocal Style, focusing on the less defined demands within contemporary drama. Lifting contemporary speech rhythms off the page can be a challenge for actors. Sometimes these rhythms are realistic, resembling or mirroring the speech patterns of real human beings, sometimes they are non-realistic, distorting speech patterns for particular effect. Modern Voice not only provides an accessible approach for understanding speech rhythm but also presents an overview of different types and styles of contemporary text (including the rise of dramatic realism in England, America and Australia). Along the way there are a myriad of practical ideas for directors, lecturers, teachers, trainers and coaches to explore in their workshops and rehearsals.

Mercy Fine

Author: Shelley Silas
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Mercy fine is the prestigious 2005 new writing commission from Clean Break.

The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women

Author: Catherine Weate
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women is an essential resource for actors participating in acting classes, contests, auditions, and rehearsals. This book collects over fifty speeches from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years, bringing together specially selected speeches by essential modern dramatists.

It's True, It's True, It's True

Author: Breach Theatre
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786826615
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 70

Book Description
Fringe First and Total Theatre Award- winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this new play dramatises the seven-month trial that gripped Renaissance Rome, and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. Blending myth, history and contemporary commentary, this is the story of how a woman took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation.

Classic Voice

Author: Catherine Weate
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Classic Voice is an essential guide for teachers, students, and actors who are approaching classical texts. It is a unique resource that provides information, ideas, and plans for dealing with the vocal demands of classical text in workshop contexts. It includes sections on warming up the voice, getting familiar with the language and content, and approaching the text aloud.

Hear Me Now

Author: Titilola Dawudu
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786824620
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
A brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty original audition monologues, expressly created by a range of award-winning writers brought together by producer Titilola Dawudu and Tamasha Theatre Company. They're ideal for actors of colour searching for speeches for auditions or training, writers, teachers, and theatre-makers who are passionate about improving diversity. The book provides varied, nuanced stories that expand beyond the range of existing material available – from a cross-dressing Imam, to the first Black Prime Minister, the British Indian girl with dreams of becoming a country music star, or the young Black boy who loves baking as much as football – Hear Me Now is an essential tool for actors of colour to showcase their range, and seeks to inspire, empower, and create a legacy for generations to come.

Blink

Author: Phil Porter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849435561
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It's a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same. This new play by the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner Phil Porter, is an exciting collaboration between Soho Theatre - London's most vibrant venue for new writing, comedy and cabaret - and internationally acclaimed Fringe First winners nabokov.