Contemporary comedic monologues for women professional#

This blog reflects our professional identities as Professors working in Theatre Studies at Lancaster University but just as, if not more, importantly our pleasure in a вЂgirlsвЂ™ night outвЂ™(or вЂinвЂ™). We share a passionate interest in drama, theatre and performance spanning a wide range of media, along with a commitment to feminism. The drama queens are Elaine Aston and Geraldine (Gerry) Harris. Thompson has also edited this collection of Canadian monologues for women: Palace of the End (2008) triptych of personal stories about Iraq.

Contemporary comedic monologues for women tv#

Perfect Pie written as a monologue for TV (1994) subsequently made into a full-length play deals with friendship between women childhood memories epilepsy. Play written in monologue form вЂset in a petrol station in present-day IrelandвЂ™ Pump girl works in the petrol station, a вЂwoman who loves her job and thinks sheвЂ™s one of the ladsвЂ™.ДЄ Canadian playwright who has written some excellent monologues for women. Political and provocative monologue on the disparity between rich and poor вЂoriginally written with the idea in mind that it could be performed in homes and apartments, for groups of ten or twelveвЂ™ can be performed by a man or a woman Clare Higgins performed the monologue at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009. Monologue for a young woman (originally performed by Gemma Whelan) who forms an obsessive relationship with a crippled solider on a life-support machine. Sherbert Gravel 17 streetwise east Londoner has some good stuff as well especially a speech which starts вЂњI wish I could grow old gracefullyвЂќ.ДЄnita 53 a mother whose son has been murdered has some speeches which have very brief interjections and could be made into an audition piece for an older woman.

Haley Stray 28 a twin who lives in squalor eating nothing but chocolate with her brother has a fantastical speech about being chased by dogs and escaping by climbing a statue of Christ in a church. Published by Faber currently out of print, though university libraries should have this in stock. Girl-gang drama two-hander includes several extended monologues that narrate episodes of girl-gang life in Hackney. Written for disabled and deaf female performers first performed by Graeae Theatre Company. Peeling is a three hander, all female, about actors in a post-modern production of вЂthe Trojan Women here and nowвЂ™ lots of meta-theatrical fun and lots of monologues of various styles and content from вЂchorusвЂ™ sections from the supposed production about war, to contemporary monologues about relationships between women and their bodies, women and their mothers, women and their fertility. Solo show character 14-year old girl, Katie вЂa turbulent and triumphant tale of a totally troubled teen dark comedy.Д¬ontains monologues by two female characters: cooking-mad teenager Jill and man-mad mother/Mam dark comedy.ДЄ three-hander written mainly in monologue form story of child abduction/killing has two women roles, one the mother of the murdered child, the other a criminal psychologist.ДЄll women play composed of monologues across three generations of Irish women (grandmother, mother & daughter) poignant and funny stories about events in the womenвЂ™s personal lives. Hard-hitting, political, вЂbitchesвЂ™ monologue by a young woman imprisoned and about to be stoned to death. Includes two women in their 30s, best friends Scarlet and Lucy Scarlet has extended monologues about an abusive past and damaged sexuality premiered Bush Theatre. Has a final monologue delivered by a young woman, Joan dark-ecological theme. Terrific opening monologue delivered by ChurchillвЂ™s mythical figure of Skriker originally played by Kathryn Hunter political/experimental. Lucy Kerbel useful starting point for women students looking for material to perform.ДЄuditions: The Complete Guide, 2nd Edition (2014)ДЄn interesting extended monologue that offers a number of good sections from which to select an appropriate audition piece. As a writer, Wix has for the past few years been creating audition speeches for students at drama schools including RADA, LAMDA, Drama Centre and The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.Д®dited by Trilby James, containing fifty speeches from plays by writers including Mike Bartlett, Vivienne Franzmann, Caryl Churchill, debbie tucker green, Helen Edmundson, Enda Walsh and Jack Thorne вЂ“ all of them written since the year 2000. She is also one half of the sketch show double act Anna & Katy (Channel 4).

Katy Wix is a comedian, writer and performer who stars in Not Going Out (BBC 1). Compiled with the kind assistance of: Cath Badham, Robin Booth, Patrick Duggan, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Emma Gee, Lewis Morgan, Kate OвЂ™Reilly, Eleanor Pike, Graham Saunders and Andy Smith.Д®dited by Patrick Tucker, Christine OzanneД¬ontains 40 original comic audition pieces by Katy Wix.