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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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).