Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women

Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company

Alice 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, Dais, Roisin McBrinn, Lauren Mooney, Roisin McBrinn, Lauren Mooney

• Editorial: Methuen Drama
• Año: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781350097513
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Media & Performing Arts
• Categoría: Theatre

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a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix of published and unpublished works.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.

Permissions Acknowledgements

Little on the inside, © Alice Birch, 2019

[ BLANK ] © Alice Birch, 2018, by kind permission of Oberon Books Ltd.

Black Crows © Linda Brogan, 2007, by kind permission of Oberon Books Ltd.

Jadan © Danni Brown, 2019

Joanne © Ursula Rani Sarma and Deborah Bruce, 2015, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Didn’t Die © Annie Caulfield, 2019

Thick as Thieves © Kath Chandler, 2018, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Spent © Kath Chandler, 2019

Apache Tears © Lin Coghlan, 2019

Head Rot Holiday © Sarah Daniels, 1994

Trainers © Raina Dunne AKA Titch, 2019

Fingertips © Suhayla El-Bushra, 2019

Pests © Vivienne Franzmann, 2014, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Sounds Like an Insult © Vivienne Franzmann, 2019

Blis-ta © Sonya Hale, 2019

Daddycation © Katie Hims, 2019

The Garden Girls from Holborough: Three Plays © Jaqueline Holborough, 2006, by kind permission of Oberon Books Ltd.

Killers © Jaqueline Holborough, 2019

FKA Queens © Theresa Ikoko, 2019

Firm © Daisy King, 2019

it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now © Lucy Kirkwood, 2009, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Wicked © Bryony Lavery, 1990

That Almost Unnameable Lust © Rebecca Lenkiewiez, 2010, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Typical Girls © Morgan Lloyd Malcom, 2019

Amazing Amy © Laura Lomas, 2019

Inside a Cloud © Sabrina Mahfouz, 2019

A Bitch Like Me © Natasha Marshall, 2019

Fatal Light and This Wide Night © Chloe Moss, 2010, 2008, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Amongst the Reeds © Chinoyerem Odimba, 2016, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Te Awa I Tahuti (The River That Ran Away) © Rena Owen, 2019

Mules © Winsome Pinnock, 1996, by kind permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

Taken © Winsome Pinnock, 2010, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Yard Girl © Rebecca Pritchard, 1998, by kind permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

Joanne © Ursula Rani Sarma and Deborah Bruce, 2015, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Red © Anna Reynolds, 2019

House © Somalia Seaton, 2016, by kind permission of Nick Hern Books.

Mercy Fine © Shelley Silas, 2017, by kind permission of Oberon Books Ltd.

21.23.6.15 © Sandrine Uwayo, 2019

And I and Silence © Naomi Wallace, 2019

Permissions Information

Methuen Drama

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK

Nick Hern Books

All rights whatsoever in the following plays are strictly reserved. Taken by Winsome Pinnock, it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now by Lucy Kirkwood, Joanne by Ursula Rani Sarma and Deborah Bruce, That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Fatal Light and This Wide Night by Chloe Moss, House by Somalia Seaton, Pests by Vivienne Franzmann, Amongst the Reeds by Chinoyerem Odimba, Thick as Thieves by Kath Chandler. Requests to reproduce the text in whole or in part should be addressed to Nick Hern Books www.nickhernbooks.co.uk.

Amateur Performing Rights: Applications for performance, including readings and excerpts, by amateurs throughout the world (excluding the United States of America and Canada) should be addressed in the first instance to the Performing Rights Manager, Nick Hern Books, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP, tel [phone], e-mail [email protected] except as follows:

Australia: Dominie Drama, 8 Cross Street, Brookvale 2100, fax [phone], e-mail [email protected]

New Zealand: Play Bureau, PO Box 420, New Plymouth, fax [phone], e-mail [email protected]

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