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Informationen zum Autor Catherine Weate has been voice coaching for over twenty years in England, Australia, Hong Kong, Africa and India. Her work has taken her into the diverse worlds of theatre, film, radio, education, commerce, law and politics. 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. Klappentext 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'. 'Anyone applying to train, preparing a showcase or auditioning for a job needs a fund of good sparky monologues, and they can be quite difficult to find. So I think many people are going to be grateful to voice coach Catherine Weate who has assembled and edited two further books of modern monologues' The Stage ' - there is sufficient scope here for anyone in search of the piece to impress - I'd highly recommend these books.' Teaching Drama, Summer Term issue 2010 on Modern Monologues for Women and Modern Monologues for Men Volume 1 Zusammenfassung A collection of male monologues selected from the best in modern British playwrighting from the last 5 years. Perfect for actors and students looking for that ideal monologue for an audition or student showcase. PART ONE: TEENS BOY Shadowmouth (Meredith Oakes) 17 TIM The Loss of All Things (Chris Goode) from Sixty-Six Books: 21st-Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible 20 SOLDIER BOY Desert Boy (Mojisola Adebayo) from Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One 23 JAY Mrs Reynolds and The Ruffian (Gary Owen) 26 JORDAN Fit (Rikki Beadle-Blair) 29 MARK DNA (Dennis Kelly) 32 JAKEY Blackberry Trout Face (Laurence Wilson) 35 MOHAMMED What Fatima Did - (Atiha Sen Gupta) 39 JOE Shraddha (Natasha Langridge) 41 PART TWO: TWENTIES ALISTAIR Posh (Laura Wade) 46 DANIEL Spur of the Moment (Anya Reiss) 50 JAMES DEAN JAMES DEAN IS DEAD! (Long Live James Dean) (Jackie Skarvellis) from Hollywood Legends: 'Live' on Stage 52 SID Kurt and Sid (Roy Smiles) 54 FRANCIS One Man, Two Guvnors (Richard Bean) 56 X Untitled (Inua Ellams) 59 RYSIEK Our Class (Tadeusz Slobodzianek / Ryan Craig) 62 1 2 IKE Shalom Baby (Rikki Beadle-Blair) 65 RAY Bea (Mick Gordon) 67 E-Z Lower Ninth (Beau Willimon) 70 SCOTT Love Steals Us From Loneliness (Gary Owen) 73 DANIEL The Dark Things (Ursula Rani Sarma) 76 SAM Beardy (Tom Wells) from Sixty-Six Books: 21st-Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible 79 PART THREE: THIRTIES MECHANIC Middletown (Will Eno) 84 ANDREW In the Pipeline (Gary Owen) 87 Paul Deep Heat (Robin Soans) 90 MAX Chekhov in Hell (Dan Rebellato) 93 CURTIS We're Gonna Make You Whole (Yasmine Van Wilt) 97 DEMISSIE Zero (Chris O'Connell) 100 CHRISTOPHER Up on Roof (Richard Bean) from Bean: Plays Three 104 MICHAEL I Heart Maths (James Ley) from The Ego Plays 109 OZZY The Miracle Man (Douglas Maxwell) 112 THE OTHER I Am the Wind (Jon Fosse / Simon Stephens) 115 POZDYNYSHEV The Kreutzer Sonata (Leo Tolstoy / Nancy Harris) 121 THE COACH Behold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured from Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions (Will Eno) 124 1 3 PART FOUR: FORTIES PLUS PATRICK This Other City (Daragh Carville) 128 SONGWRITER Blue Heart Afternoon (Nigel Gearing) 131 ALI Deep Heat (Robin Soans) 134 MOHAMED HAMMOUDAN The Riots (Gillian Slovo) 137 METWALI The Prophet (Hassan Abdulrazzak) 140 SANCHO Sancho: An Act of Remembrance (P...
