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.