Monologue Mondays
Run Date: October to December 2020.
Venue: Online.
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Description: Monologue Mondays was used as the launch project of our Theatre Company to the world. Launching in 2020 meant that we could not gain access to a theatre space due to the industry being temporary shutdown because of Covid-19 pandemic. This did not stop us. Instead of seeing this as a negative we viewed it as an opportunity to showcase our work to a larger online audience, completely free. In total we created nine monologues which were a mixture of newly written work by our resident writers and classical texts that we staged in a contemporary way.
Below you can find a description of each monologue and who was involved with them. All monologues can be found on each of our social media accounts or over on our YouTube Account, which is linked below.
Goodbyes
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Description: Your mind is the most unpredictable thing. It leads your thoughts on journeys you often hadn’t planned. It’s unpredictable but it’s also the thing that mostly defines you as who you are.
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Release Date: 23/10/20.
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Written by: Anna Pellegrini.
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Performed by: Hannah MacDonald.
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Directed by: Adam Cachia.
The Spanish Tragedy
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Description: Taking place in Act IV Scene I, this speech sees Bel-Imperia (a young, intelligent and strong-willed noblewoman in the Spanish court) chastising Hieronimo, a knight, for grieving for his son but not taking action to revenge his death. Bel reminds him that although she is a stranger to him, she loved his son and wants to see his murderers punished. She swears that she’ll take revenge even if Hieronimo doesn’t.
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Release Date: 02/11/20.
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Written by: Thomas Kyd.
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Performed by: Georgia Hewkin as Bel- Imperia.
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Directed by: Adam Cachia.
The Third Person of You and I
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Description: The third person of you and I explores the idea of love and connection. Of how a person tries to fight for something more important than their own needs. How a person tries to open their partner's eyes and convince them that there is something bigger than the two of them, something more important. Their love. Their third person.
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Release Date: 09/11/20.
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Written by: Bernadett Szabo.
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Performed by: Alex Douglas.
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Directed by: Adam Cachia.
Dido, Queen of Carthage
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Description: Taking place in Act IV Scene IV: Dido is a strong and independent queen who begins the story adamant she’ll never marry but, having been poisoned by Cupid, has now fallen deeply in love with Aeneas.
Aeneas has just left and Dido says to her attendants that he speaks like the conqueror he is destined to be. She blesses the storm and sands that shipwrecked him in Carthage and says they are now the city’s gods. She resolves to practically stop him rather than just wish, commanding one servant to hide Aeneas’ son. She then takes another precaution, stealing his oars, sails and rigging. She realises this will anger him and is frightened because she knows an unhappy Aeneas is the only thing that can conquer her. She believes that if she could only keep him in Carthage she would live forever, such is the power of their love.
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Release Date: 16/11/20.
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Written by: Christopher Marlowe.
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Performed by: Alecia Maddox as Queen Dido.
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Directed by: Adam Cachia.
The Woman with Fearless Eyes
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Description: They say that when you face death you are finally able to put things into perspective and see them clearly. But is that always true?
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Release Date: 23/11/20.
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Written by: Anna Pellegrini.
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Performed by: Ryan Hunt.
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Directed by: Adam Cachia.
Isabella, Woman Beware Women
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Description: Isabella is young and naïve. But not so naïve as to know that her arranged future husband is an idiot.
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Release Date: 30/11/20.
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Written by: Thomas Middleton.
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Performed by: Natasha Lawton.
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Directed by: Adam Cachia.
Touch Me Please
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Description: A woman explores her safeness through self-love, when a bad memory emerges in her consciousness. A memory of the past, a memory of his love. As she gets lost between her comfort and the painful past. Just touch me please explores the question whether someone's own love being enough or do we need to be loved by someone else to be complete?
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Release Date: 07/12/20.
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Written by: Bernadett Szabo.
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Performed by: Maja Szewczuk.
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Directed by: Adam Cachia.
Like Mercury
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Description: Dwayne hasn’t slept in years. Since he was a teenager he’s never truly been at peace with the world or with himself. His is a life of routine, blood, tarmac, life and death.
During one of his night shifts Dwayne’s harrowing school years are unexpectedly thrust back into the present. Will he finally be able to let go, or is he too bound like Mercury for the rest of his days to serve as a guide for souls entering the underworld.
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Release Date: 14/12/20.
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Written by: Christopher Schaunig.
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Performed by: Christopher Wollaton .
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Directed by: Adam Cachia.