Not in the script : performance monologues from unexpected places /

Here are thirty-two exciting monologues, drawn from the work of great storytellers, poets and novelists, from the classic to the contemporary. These pieces do not come from plays, but each has a narrative and an action that makes it ideal for theatrical performance. In each case, the speaker is a fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McCallum, John, 1962- (Editor), Nichols, Jenny (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Strawberry Hills, New South Wales : Currency Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • This person (No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July)
  • J. (from Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome)
  • Sunny (from Purple threads by Jeanine Leane)
  • Charlie (from Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey)
  • Miss Smilla (from Miss Smilla's feeling for snow by Peter Høeg)
  • Ellie (from The dead of night by John Marsden)
  • Breq (from Ancillary justice by Ann Leckie)
  • Moll (from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe)
  • Pip (from Great expectations by Charles Dickens)
  • Alice (from Unpolished gem by Alice Pung)
  • Elena (from My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante)
  • Molly (from Ulysses by James Joyce)
  • Jane (from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte)
  • Myrna's husband (from Mr Coffee and Mr Fixit by Raymond Carver)
  • Cal (from Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides)
  • Old woman (from The shed by Elizabeth Jolley)
  • Molloy (from Molloy by Samuel Beckett)
  • Esther (from The bell jar by Sylvia Plath)
  • The child (from Children on a country road by Franz Kafka)
  • Vivien (from Amundsen by Alice Munro)
  • Felix (from Once by Morris Gleitzman)
  • John Bartle (from The yellow birds by Kevin Powers)
  • Eve (from Eve's diary by Mark Twain)
  • Natan (from The secret chord by Geraldine Brooks)
  • Selma (from The kiss of Sadam by Michelle McDonald)
  • The woman (from Song of Solomon, King James bible)
  • Me (from Me, Antman and Fleabag by Gayle Kennedy)
  • David (from See you again yesterday by David Sedaris)
  • Ovid (from An imaginary life by David Malouf)
  • I have never seen you (by Jyoti Lanjewar).