Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in
prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the
criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre.
Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive
and brilliant women writers to write ground-breaking plays, alongside
developing the writing skills of the women they work with in its London
studios and in prisons. This is a collection of monologues from this
canon.
Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women celebrates the
opportunities inherent when women represent themselves. Offering female
performers a diverse set of monologues reflecting a range of characters
in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix
of published and unpublished works.
This book is for any performer who does not see themselves represented
in mainstream plays, for lovers of radical women's theatre and for
rebels everywhere who believe that the act of speaking and being heard
can create change.