National Theatre Connections Monologues

Speeches for Young Actors

Anthony Banks

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781472573100
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472573131
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

For the first time, there is an anthology of monologues for young people available, taken from plays commissioned as part of the National Theatre Connections over the past 20 years.

Always drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – the annual National Theatre Connections anthologies offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department and reflects the past year's programming at the venue in the plays' ideas, themes and styles. The plays are performed by approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where the works are showcased.

This anthology of 100 monologues is the ideal resource for teenagers and young people attending auditions either in the amateur or professional theatre world; students leaving secondary school to audition for drama school; as well as teachers of English and Drama looking for suitable dramatic for their students to engage with and perform. It provides suitable scene-study books that are suitable and relevant to the student in terms of tone, style and content. Young actors who have searched for audition material written in the voice of teenage characters will welcome this resource.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Letter to the Author
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Accordion Shop by Cush Jumbo, Mister Ellody
• After Juliet by Sharman Macdonald, Rosaline
• Alice by Heart by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, Duchess
• Almost Grown by Richard Cameron, Tommy
• Angels by Pauline McLynn, Shawn
• Asleep Under The Dark Earth by Sian Evans, Bethan
• Baby Girl by Roy Williams, Sam
• Bassett by James Graham, Spencer
• The Bear Table by Julian Garner, Harri
• The Bedbug by Snoo Wilson, Mayakovsky
• The Black Remote by Glyn Maxwell, Polly
• Blackout by Davey Anderson, James
• Blooded by Isabel Wright, FatB
• Boat Memory by Laline Paull, Hannah
• Broken Hallelujah by Sharman Macdonald, Rowatt
• Burn by Deborah Gearing, Rachel
• Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne, Tom
• Can You Keep a Secret? by Winsome Pinnock, Weirdboy
• Chatroom by Enda Walsh, Jim
• Children of Killers by Katori Hall, Esperance
• The Chrysalids by David Harrower, after John Wyndham, Michael
• Citizenship by Mark Ravenhill, Baby
• Cloud Busting by Helen Blakeman, Davey
• Cuba by Liz Lochhead, B.
• Dead End by Letizia Russo, translated by Aleks Sierz, Kent
• Dirty Dirty Princess by Georgia Fitch, Billie
• Discontented Winter: House Remix by Bryony Lavery, Ronan
• DNA by Dennis Kelly, Leah and Richard
• Dust by Sarah Daniels, Woman with Baby
• Eclipse by Simon Armitage, Tulip and Midnight
• The Edelweiss Pirates by Ayub Khan Din, Klaus Becker
• Follow, Follow by Katie Douglas, Billy
• Frank & Ferdinand by Samuel Adamson, Flora
• Friendly Fire by Peter Gill, Gary
• Gargantua by Carl Grose, Wellard
• Generation Next by Meera Syal, Nina
• Gizmo by Alan Ayckbourn, Ben
• The Grandfathers by Rory Mullarkey, Dim
• The Guffin by Howard Brenton, Sat
• He’s Talking by Nicholas Wright, Miles
• The Heights by Lisa McGee, Lillie
• Heritage by Dafydd James, Lisa
• Hood by Katherine Chandler, John and Nas
• Horizon by Matt Hartley, Sally
• Hospital Food by Eugene O’Hare, Josh
• I’m Spilling My Heart Out Here by Stacey Gregg, Sweep
• Illyria by Bryony Lavery, Maria
• In the Sweat by Naomi Wallace and Bruce McLeod, Nazreen
• It Snows by Bryony Lavery, and Scott Graham & Steven Hoggett for Frantic Assembly, Cameron
• Just by Ali Smith, Victoria
• A Letter To Lacey by Catherine Johnson, Kara
• Little Foot by Craig Higginson, Moby
• Lunch in Venice by Nick Dear, Ben
• The Minotaur by Jan Maloney, Ariadne
• The Miracle by Lin Coghlan, Zelda
• Mobile Phone Show by Jim Cartwright, BB
• The Monstrum by Kellie Smith, Beatrice
• Moonfleece by Philip Ridley, Curtis and Stacey
• More Light by Bryony Lavery, Pure Joy
• Mugged by Andrew Payne, Dig
• Multiplex by Christopher William Hill, Spike
• My Face by Nigel Williams, Mark
• Nuts by Fausto Paravidino, translated by Zachary Kinney, Snappy
• Pass It On by Doug Lucie, Giles
• Prince of Denmark by Michael Lesslie, Laertes
• Pronoun by Evan Placey, Dean
• The Queen Must Die by David Farr, Darren
• Ruckus in The Garden by David Farr, Cath and Tamsen
• Same by Deborah Bruce, Eddie
• Seventeen by Michael Gow, Ella
• The Shoemaker’s Incredible Wife by Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Lucinda Coxon, Wife
• A Shop Selling Speech by Sabrina Mahfouz, Ahmed
• Shut Up by Andrew Payne, Tats
• The Snow Dragons by Lizzie Nunnery, Christi and Snorri
• Soundclash by Lenny Henry, Lil Kid and DJ Emperor
• The Spider Men by Ursula Rani Sarma, Sarah
• Starstone by Christian Martin, translated by Penny Black, Military Padre
• Status Update by Tim Etchells, B
• Stone Moon by Judith Johnson, Kiri
• Success by Nick Drake, Tom Rakewell
• Take Away by Jackie Kay, Kenneth
• Taking Breath by Sarah Daniels, Elliot
• The Things She Sees by Ben Power, after a novella by Charles Boyle, Sayyid
• Those Legs by Noel Clarke, Georgia
• Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey, Darren
• Too Fast by Douglas Maxwell, Spoke’s Brother
• Totally Over You by Mark Ravenhill, Letitia
• Travel Club and Boy Soldier by Wole Soyinka, Fabori
• A Vampire Story by Moira Buffini, Fillet
• The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft, Dido Elizabeth Belle
• We Lost Elijah by Ryan Craig, Grace
• Where I Come From: Scenes from Abroad by Mike Williams by Richard Nelson, Emily
• Zero for the Young Dudes! by Alistair McDowall
• Agent and Publisher Information
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