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Naff smashes the Genesis story with reality TV. Combining classical and postmodern pop, the playwright has created a fresh take on the Adam & Eve story. This anachronistic gem of a comic monologue will have your audience in stitches. Perfect for a comedy festival.

Lara finds the comedy in a twentysomething's isolation during the pandemic, a sincere snapshot of a woman on the edge (the fire-escape, ha) that finds the seriousness in the silliness.

This monologue reaches lyrical heights that 99.99% monologues do not. With its preface and epilogue, this monologue uses a rhetorical structure and strategy that's rare in the monologue form. Covering past and present, the speaker reveals an emotional intensity that you can feel.

A perfect encapsulation in monologue form of a woman's mental and emotional process through decision to abortion procedure to what haooens next. Brutally honest, raw feelings, make an argument for the right to choose while being hauntingly atmospheric.
Choose this for your reading showcase on aboetion and reproductive rights.

This play can be performed in mostly any country, any community, and the stakes and horror will resonate because cruelty is universal.

There's immediacy and intimacy in this that is rare in solo shows. You feel it with every page, ever revelation. A play that reminds you of the power of the solo performance in theatre. From the first image, you will be hooked.

With gorgeous and haunting dialog with a lyrical quality, ebbing and flowing, this coming-of-age play is like no other play. There's a sense of doom and fear on and off shore that will have your audience on the edge. Every page, every single page, there is a beautiful moment, something new and surprising. Check this out.

An exceptional ensemble play about high school exploring school and individual spirit. Does that while exploring themes around privilege, race, and sexuality. With its bad dance moves, bad rap, and workout sessions, the playwright gives it to us raw and honest and awkward and cringe about being a high school kid in America. Check it out!

When you read these monologues you will be moving in your seat! There is a fluidity, a playfulness with language that is infectious, and you will find yourself moving and shaking, embodying these characters, gesturing, feeling it. The intersectionality of identities, of cultures, faith, sexuality, all of it creates a singular voice for each character. There's a world-building that is displayed in these monologues that is rare in monologues. Check it out!

Sickles challenges our perception of time and space, our understanding of character and motivation, equally disturbs and tintillates us. And he does this all while exploring this with a captivating structure with an evocative theatricality, developing his characters through an intersectionality of issues like homophobia and racism. It's a truthful piece about neurodivergence and queerness and sexuality that our theatre definitly needs.