Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women: Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre CompanyAlice Birch, Linda Brogan, Deborah Bruce, Katherine Chandler, Sarah Daniels, Suhayla El-Bushra, Sonya Hale, Katie Hims, Theresa Ikoko, Bryony Lavery, Laura Lomas, Sabrina Mahfouz, Winsome Pinnock, Danni Brown, Annie Caulfield, Lin Coghlan, Raina Dunne, Vivienne Franzmann, Jacqueline Holborough, Daisy King, Lucy Kirkwood, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Natasha Marshall, Chloe Moss, Chinoyerem Odimba, Rena Owen, Rebecca Prichard, Ursula Rani Sarma, Anna Reynolds, Somalia Seaton, Shelley Silas, Sandrine Uwayo, Naomi Wallace Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre. Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and brilliant women writers to write ground-breaking plays, alongside developing the writing skills of the women they work with in its London studios and in prisons. This is a collection of monologues from this canon. Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women celebrates the opportunities inherent when women represent themselves. Offering female performers a diverse set of monologues reflecting a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix of published and unpublished works. This book is for any performer who does not see themselves represented in mainstream plays, for lovers of radical women's theatre and for rebels everywhere who believe that the act of speaking and being heard can create change. |
Contents
Little on the inside | 2 |
BLANK | 5 |
Black Crows | 8 |
Jadan | 10 |
Joanne | 12 |
Didnt Die | 15 |
Thick as Thieves | 17 |
Spent | 20 |
Wicked | 56 |
That Almost Unnameable Lust | 59 |
Typical Girls | 61 |
Amazing Amy | 63 |
Inside a Cloud | 66 |
A Bitch like Me | 68 |
Fatal Light | 71 |
This Wide Night | 75 |
Apache Tears | 23 |
HeadRot Holiday | 25 |
Trainers | 27 |
Fingertips | 29 |
Pests | 32 |
Sounds like an Insult | 35 |
Blista | 37 |
Daddycation | 39 |
The Garden Girls | 41 |
Killers | 43 |
FKA Queens | 46 |
Firm | 49 |
it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now | 52 |
Amongst the Reeds | 78 |
Te Awa I Tahuti The River that Ran Away | 80 |
Mules | 82 |
Taken | 84 |
Yard Gal | 86 |
Joanne | 88 |
Red | 91 |
House | 93 |
Mercy Fine | 96 |
2123615 | 98 |
And I and Silence | 101 |
Permissions Acknowledgements | 103 |
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Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women: Celebrating 40 Years of Clean ... Roisin McBrinn,Lauren Mooney No preview available - 2019 |
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