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Parry studied playwriting at the University of Birmingham and read English Language and Literature at Exeter College, Oxford. [4] In 2011, she co-founded Agent 160 Theatre Company [5] and co-produced two of its shows: a run of short plays by female playwrights in Cardiff, London and Glasgow, and also a series of female monologues at Wales Millennium Centre.
Not I takes place in a pitch-black space illuminated only by a single beam of light. This spotlight fixes on an actress's mouth about eight feet above the stage, [1] everything else being blacked out and, in early performances, illuminates the shadowy figure of the Auditor who makes four increasingly ineffectual movements "of helpless compassion" during brief breaks in the monologue where ...
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde is "a new and original play of modern life", in four acts, first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London. [1] Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society.
The play deals with the personal ordeals of each of the female characters. Many of them are very touching; a few are even intensely emotional. However, there is also the very comical. Even the funny ones, however, have an underlying depth to them that gives a sensitive insight into each of the characters involved.
"A Lady of Letters" is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television, as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. The series became very popular, moving onto BBC Radio, international theatre, becoming one of the best-selling audio book releases of all time and included as part of both the A-level and GCSE English syllabus. [1]
Six monologues made famous by the diva Caroline O'Connor, exposing six women balancing their inner and outer lives with humour and often desperate cunning. They range in age from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow yearning for the unexpected.
The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953), by Ray Bradbury; Fools (1981), by Neil Simon; Fortitude (1968), by Kurt Vonnegut; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1982), by Terrence McNally; The Frog Prince (1982), by David Mamet; The Front Page (1928), by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; Fugitive Kind (1937), by Tennessee Williams
Throughout the monologue she intertwines English and Spanish. During this time she discovered blues clubs. She says she became possessed by the music. She ends her monologue by calling it her poem "thank-you for music," to which she states: "I love you more than poem". [13] She repeats "te amo mas que," and the other women join her, softly ...