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Girls and Boys is a 2018 one-woman play by British writer Dennis Kelly that narrates a story of love, marriage, and eventually, family violence. The script was published by Bloomsbury and Carey Mulligan 's performance of it is available as an audio book.
Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975), by Ray Bradbury; Play It Again, Sam (1969), by Woody Allen; Plaza Suite (1968), by Neil Simon; The Pleasure of His Company (1958), by Samuel A. Taylor; The Poet & the Rent (1986), by David Mamet; POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (2022), by Selina Fillinger
Actor Christopher Walken performing a monologue in the 1984 stage play Hurlyburly. In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.
This category comprises articles pertaining to monologues, speeches made by one person speaking their thoughts aloud or directly addressing a reader, audience or character Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Nina Lindsay, chair of the Newbery Medal committee, called the monologues "superb" and stated that as a whole, they "create a pageant that transports readers to a different time and place." [ 5 ] In 2008, Anita Silvey , author of 100 Best Books for Children , described Good Masters!
The Manic Monologues premiered during Mental Health Awareness Month in 2019 at Stanford University. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 17 ] [ 19 ] [ 27 ] The play has shown in Des Moines, Iowa , [ 6 ] [ 11 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] where David Felton of BroadwayWorld dubbed it "A production I won't soon forget," [ 11 ] and at the University of California, Los Angeles .
The History Boys (screenplay, from his play of the same name), 2006; National Theatre: Fifty Years on Stage (actor and writer), 2013; The Lady in the Van (screenplay, from his play of the same name; cameo), 2015; Alan Bennett's Diaries (cinematic documentary, as himself; also writer), 2016; Allelujah (screenplay, from his play of the same name ...
Each of the monologues deals with an aspect of the feminine experience, touching on matters such as sex, sex work, body image, love, rape, menstruation, female genital mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the common names for the vagina or simply as a physical aspect of the body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a ...