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Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women
Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company
Alice Birch (Author) , Linda Brogan (Author) , Deborah Bruce (Author) , Katherine Chandler (Author) , Sarah Daniels (Author) , Suhayla El-Bushra (Author) , Sonya Hale (Author) , Katie Hims (Author) , Theresa Ikoko (Author) , Bryony Lavery (Author) , Laura Lomas (Author) , Sabrina Mahfouz (Author) , Winsome Pinnock (Author) , Danni Brown (Author) , Annie Caulfield (Author) , Lin Coghlan (Author) , Raina Dunne (Author) , Vivienne Franzmann (Author) , Jacqueline Holborough (Author) , Daisy King (Author) , Lucy Kirkwood (Author) , Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Author) , Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Author) , Natasha Marshall (Author) , Chloe Moss (Author) , Chinoyerem Odimba (Author) , Rena Owen (Author) , Rebecca Prichard (Author) , Ursula Rani Sarma (Author) , Anna Reynolds (Author) , Somalia Seaton (Author) , Shelley Silas (Author) , Sandrine Uwayo (Author) , Naomi Wallace (Author) , Roisin McBrinn (Anthology Editor) , Lauren Mooney (Anthology Editor)
Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women
Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company
Alice Birch (Author) , Linda Brogan (Author) , Deborah Bruce (Author) , Katherine Chandler (Author) , Sarah Daniels (Author) , Suhayla El-Bushra (Author) , Sonya Hale (Author) , Katie Hims (Author) , Theresa Ikoko (Author) , Bryony Lavery (Author) , Laura Lomas (Author) , Sabrina Mahfouz (Author) , Winsome Pinnock (Author) , Danni Brown (Author) , Annie Caulfield (Author) , Lin Coghlan (Author) , Raina Dunne (Author) , Vivienne Franzmann (Author) , Jacqueline Holborough (Author) , Daisy King (Author) , Lucy Kirkwood (Author) , Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Author) , Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Author) , Natasha Marshall (Author) , Chloe Moss (Author) , Chinoyerem Odimba (Author) , Rena Owen (Author) , Rebecca Prichard (Author) , Ursula Rani Sarma (Author) , Anna Reynolds (Author) , Somalia Seaton (Author) , Shelley Silas (Author) , Sandrine Uwayo (Author) , Naomi Wallace (Author) , Roisin McBrinn (Anthology Editor) , Lauren Mooney (Anthology Editor)
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction Lucy Perman
Acknowledgements
Little on the inside by Alice Birch, B
[ BLANK ] by Alice Birch, A
Black Crows by Linda Brogan, Leonora
Jadan by Danni Brown, Jadan
Joanne by Deborah Bruce, Kath
Didn't Die by Annie Caulfield, Dinah
Thick as Thieves by Katherine Chandler, Karen
Spent by Katherine Chandler, Nat
Apache Tears by Lin Coghlan, Merle
Head-Rot Holiday by Sarah Daniels, Helen
Trainers by Raina Dunne AKA Titch, Ellie
Fingertips by Suhayla El-Bushra, Kidisti
Pests by Vivienne Franzmann, Pink
Sounds like an Insult by Vivienne Franzmann, Brenda
Blis-ta by Sonya Hale, Kat
Daddycation by Katie Hims, Jess
The Garden Girls by Jacqueline Holborough, Mary
Killers by Jacqueline Holborough, The Prisoner
FKA Queens by Theresa Ikoko, Ngozi
Firm by Daisy King, Stevie
it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now by Lucy Kirkwood, Dijana
Wicked by Bryony Lavery, Rosie
That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Katherine
Typical Girls by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Munch
Amazing Amy by Laura Lomas, Amy
Inside a Cloud by Sabrina Mahfouz, Carly
A Bitch like Me by Natasha Marshall, Lesha
Fatal Light by Chloë Moss, Jay
This Wide Night by Chloë Moss, Marie
Amongst the Reeds by Chinonyerem Odimba, Gillian
Te Awa I Tahuti (The River that Ran Away) by Rena Owen, Toni
Mules by Winsome Pinnock, Allie
Taken by Winsome Pinnock, Della
Yard Gal by Rebecca Prichard, Boo
Joanne by Ursula Rani Sarma, Grace
Red by Anna Reynolds, Kay
House by Somalia Seaton, Mama
Mercy Fine by Shelley Silas, Mercy
21.23.6.15 by Sandrine Uwayo, A Voice
And I and Silence by Naomi Wallace, Dee
Permissions Acknowledgements
Product details

Published | May 02 2019 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 120 |
ISBN | 9781350097506 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 9 x 5 inches |
Series | Audition Speeches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A very thorough book with some extremely interesting activities outlined for rehearsing Shakespearean monologues.
Word Matters (STSD)
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I fumed and laughed and cried. A rich, varied and timely anthology of monologues for Everywoman. Clean Break is giving actors of ALL ages, ethnicities and backgrounds an opportunity to shine.
Indira Varma, Actor
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Clean Break has an archive of incredible monologues for women; women whose voices aren't often heard and whose experience is rarely given this level of complexity and humanity . . . A special resource that I wish had been around when I was at drama school.
Zawe Ashton, Actor and Clean Break Patron
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Rebel Voices is a compelling anthology and a unique insight into a brilliant, ground-breaking theatre company.
Kathy Burke, Theatre Director