The Oberon book of modern monologues for men 2 /

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BX00882909

Paperback The Oberon book of modern monologues for men 2 /

Publication year: 2013

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: Oberon Books,

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: BX00882909 9781849434362(pbk)

Notes: Teens. Boy : Shadowmouth / Meredith Oakes ; Tim : The loss of all things / Chris Goode from Sixty-six books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible ; Soldier Boy : Desert boy / Mojisola Adebayo from Mojisola Adebayo: Plays one ; Jay : Mrs Reynolds and the ruffian / Gary Owen ; Jordan : Fit / Rikki Beadle-Blair ; Mark : DNA / Dennis Kelly ; Jakey : Blackberry trout face / Laurence Wilson ; Mohammed : What Fatima did / Atiha Sen Gupta ; Joe : Shraddha / Natasha Langridge -- pt. 2, Twenties. Alistar : Posh / Laura Wade ; Daniel : Spur of the moment / Anya Reiss ; James Dean : JAMES DEAN IS DEAD! (long live James Dean) / Jackie Skarvellis from Hollywood legends: 'live' on stage ; Sid : Kurt and Sid / Roy Smiles ; Francis : One man, two guvnors / Richard Bean ; X : Untitled / Inua Ellams ; Rysiek : Our class / Tadeusz Slobodzianek and Ryan Craig ; Ike : Shalom baby / Rikki Beadle-Blair ; Ray : Bea / Mick Gordon ; E-Z : Lower Ninth / Beau Willimon ; Scott : Love steals us from loneliness / Gary Owen ; Daniel : The dark things / Ursula Rani Sarma ; Sam : Beardy / Tom Wells from Sixty-six books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible -- pt. 3, Thirties. Mechanic : Middletown / Will Eno ; Andrew : In the pipeline / Gary Owen ; Paul : Deep heat / Robin Soans ; Max : Chekhov in hell / Dan Rebellato ; Curtis : We're gonna make you whole / Yasmine Van Wilt ; Demissie : Zero / Chris O'Connell ; Christopher : Up on roof / Richard Bean, from Bean: Plays Three ; Michael : I heart maths / James Ley, from The Ego Plays ; Ozzy : The miracle man / Douglas Maxwell ; The Other : I am the wind / Jon Fosse and Simon Stephens ; Pozdynyshev : The Kreutzer sonata / Leo Tolstoy and Nancy Harris ; The Coach : Behold the coach, in a blazer, uninsured / Will Eno from Oh, the humanity and other good intentions -- pt. 4, Forties plus. Patrick : This other city / Daragh Carville ; Songwriter : Blue heart afternoon / Nigel Gearing ; Ali : Deep heat / Robin Soans ; Mohamed Hammoudan : The riots / Gilian Slovo ; Metwali : The prophet / Hassan Abdulrazzak ; Sancho : Sancho: an act of remembrance / Paterson Joseph ; Seb : Dandy in the underworld / Tim Fountain ; Philip : Deep heat / Robin Soans ; Colonel Barclay : Birdsong / Sebastian Faulks and Rachel Wagstaff ; Dr Minor : Lullabies of Broadmoor: Wilderness / Steve Hennessy ; Alec : Colder than here / Laura Wade ; Rothko : Red / John Logan ; Tony : Muswell Hill / Torben Betts ; Colm : The gods weep / Dennis Kelly ; Malvolio : I, Shakespeare / Tim Crouch ; Orson Welles : Obediently yours, Orson Welles / Richard France from Hollywood legends: 'live' on stage ; General Kalashnikov : Kalashnikov: in the woods by the lake / Fraser Grace. This is a collection of over 50 speeches for men, taken from plays from the last 20 years. Featured dramatists include Will Eno, Richard Bean and Tim Crouch. The speeches are arranged according to age suitability - teens, twenties, thirties, etc. - and each monologue is placed in its dramatic context.

Audience: Teen readers

Extent: 180 pages ; 21cm.