Download or read book The Breakup Monologues written by Rosie Wilby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, comedian Rosie Wilby was dumped by email. Obsessing about breakups ever since, she embarked on a quest to investigate, understand and conquer the psychology of heartbreak. That quest resulted in Rosie's acclaimed podcast The Breakup Monologues. This book is a love letter to her breakups, a celebration of what they have taught her peppered with anecdotes from illustrious friends and interviews with relationship therapists, scientists and sociologists about separating in the modern age of ghosting, breadcrumbing and conscious uncoupling. Print run 10,000.

Download or read book Is Monogamy Dead written by Rosie Wilby and published by Accent Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2013, comedian Rosie Wilby found herself at a crossroads with everything she'd ever believed about romantic relationships. When people asked, 'who's the love of your life?' there was no simple answer. Did they mean her former flatmate who she'd experienced the most ecstatic, heady, yet ultimately doomed, fling with? Or did they mean the deep, lasting companionate partnerships that gave her a sense of belonging and family? Surely, most human beings need both. Mixing humour, heartache and science, Is Monogamy Dead? details Rosie's very personal quest to find out why Western society is clinging to a concept that doesn't work that well for some of us and is laden with ambiguous assumptions.

Download or read book Women s Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny written by Alisha Gaddis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living. This incredibly hysterical, cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actress the extra bang she needs to land the perfect comedic role. Women's Comedic Monologues features 60 monologues by writers and comics who have written for or performed on Chelsea Lately , Carson Daly , The Tonight Show , Last Comic Standing , Comedy Central Stage, and many more. This book is the answer to the comedic monologue needs of female actors everywhere!

Download or read book The Virgin Monologues written by Carrie Lloyd and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful, inspirational, amusing and honest guide to relationships for the modern single Christian woman. How does the single Christian woman maintain her relationships while staying true to herself? How can she thrive in a predominately secular culture and keep her faith in a world that doesn't reflect her values? The Virgin Monologues teaches how to do healthy relationships, what to fight for and what to give up on. It gives healthy principles to understand before looking for a team mate.

Download or read book 101 Breakups written by Jason Pizzarello and published by Stage Partners. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one where you'll feel all the feelings, but most especially, you'll feel hilariously moved in this dram-com that's bound to break your heart. 101 times. Comedy/Drama One-act. 30-35 minutes 10-50 actors, gender flexible

Download or read book Prozac Monologues written by Willa Goodfellow and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was going to stab her doctor, but she wrote a book instead. Years later, Willa Goodfellow revisits her account of the antidepressant-induced hypomania that hijacked her Costa Rican vacation and tells the rest of the story: her missed diagnosis of Bipolar 2, how she’d been given the wrong medications, and finally, her process of recovery. Prozac Monologues is a book within a book—part memoir of misdiagnosis and part self-help guide about life on the bipolar spectrum. Through edgy and comedic essays, Goodfellow offers information about a mood disorder frequently mistaken for major depression as well as resources for recovery and further study. Plus, Costa Rica. · If your depression keeps coming back . . . · If your antidepressant side effects are dreadful . . . · If you are curious about the bipolar spectrum . . . · If you want ideas for recovery from mental illness . . . · If you care for somebody who might have more than depression . . . . . . This book is for you.

Download or read book The Breakup Monologues written by Rosie Wilby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'piercingly honest... witty... wonderful' - The Observer 'My favourite way to learn is when a funny, clever, honest person is teaching me – that's why I love Rosie Wilby!' - Sara Pascoe 'Funny, sweet, entertaining, insightful, life-affirming...' – Viv Groskop 'Hilarious, honest and brilliant' – Helen Thorn 'Rosie Wilby unearths the hope and hilarity that can come from heartbreak' – Abigail Tarttelin ____ In 2011, comedian and podcaster Rosie Wilby was dumped by email... though she did feel a little better about it after correcting her ex's spelling and punctuation. Obsessing about breakups ever since, she embarked on a quest to investigate, understand and conquer the psychology of heartbreak. This book is a love letter to her breakups, a celebration of what they have taught her peppered with anecdotes from illustrious friends and interviews with relationship therapists, scientists and sociologists about separating in the modern age of ghosting, breadcrumbing and conscious uncoupling. Mixing humour, memoir and science, she attempts to assimilate their advice and ideas in order to not break up with Girlfriend, her partner of nearly three years. Will this self-confessed serial monogamist, and breakup addict, finally settle down?

Download or read book 100 monologues written by Eric Bogosian and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes 100 monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and more. Also included are additional pieces from Talk Radio and Notes from Underground.

Download or read book Girls and Boys written by Dennis Kelly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A piece that takes us on an extraordinary journey ... The energy and the vividness of the writing never lets up." The Independent An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary family. But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn. A tragic, violent look at parenthood and trauma, Denis Kelly's stirring monologue play premiered at The Royal Court Theatre in 2018 starring Carey Mulligan. Published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features a new introduction by David Pattie.

Download or read book The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues written by The 24 Hour Plays and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep the arts alive. Bringing together some of America's most prolific writers for the stage and screen, this unique and contemporary book of monologues collates the responses in dramatic fashion, making for an anthology of work that is timely, moving, irreverent and at its best, transcendent. Featuring original monologues by writers such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Clare Barron, Hansol Jung, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christoper Oscar Peña, Jesse Eisenberg and Monique Moses this is a rich collection that can be enjoyed by actors, writers and those looking for creative responses to the global COVID-19 crisis. With over 50 monologues from the first three weeks of the project, edited by Howard Sherman, this is an important collection that documents an unprecedented moment in history whilst also offering practical resource for actors and performers.

Download or read book It s a Slippery Slope written by Spalding Gray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-09-30 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the span of a single year, Spalding Gray marries and divorces one woman, moves in with another who bears him a son, and learns to ski.

Download or read book Scummy Mummies written by Ellie Gibson and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Honest, gutsy and laugh out loud... Do your pelvic floor exercises before reading as you may pee your pants’ – Kathy Lette A celebration of parenting failures, hilarious confessions, fish fingers and wine! This is a book for anyone who’s ever dealt with a poo in the pool, cleaned up a sick in the supermarket, or gone to an important meeting without realising there’s weetabix stuck to their bum. Because let’s be honest – no matter how much we love our kids, or how good we are at parenting, everyone’s a Scummy Mummy sometimes.

Download or read book Gender Euphoria written by Laura Kate Dale and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for many non-cisgender people, it’s gender euphoria which pushes forward their transition: the joy the first time a parent calls them by their new chosen name, the first time they have the confidence to cut their hair short, the first time they truly embrace themself. In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria: an agender dominatrix being called ‘Daddy’, an Arab trans man getting his first tattoos, a trans woman embracing her inner fighter. What they have in common are their feelings of elation, pride, confidence, freedom and ecstasy as a direct result of coming out as non-cisgender, and how coming to terms with their gender has brought unimaginable joy into their lives.

Download or read book The Colored Museum written by George C. Wolfe and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven sketches, "exhibits" in the Colored Museum, offer a humorous and irreverent look at slavery, Black cuisine, soldiers, family life, performers, and parties.

Download or read book All This Intimacy written by Rajiv Joseph and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ty Greene is a normal guy with three very big problems. In an unprecedented (for him) run of promiscuity, Ty has managed to impregnate three women in the span of one week: His ex-girlfriend, his 40-something married next-door neighbor, and his 18 year-old student. In this edgy comedy by playwright Rajiv Joseph, Ty's problems illuminate every triumph and failure of his life, and as the women in his world converge and figure out what's happened, Ty realizes that his life is adrift, and that he only has a limited time to try to piece it back together. All This Intimacy, which according to The New York Times has "a certain can't-look-away pull," is a comedy about friendship and lust and how the two don't mix."--Publisher's website.

Download or read book THE 100 written by Kirsty Budding and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE 100 offers a hundred new and classic monologues for children and young adults ages 5-19. Written by award-winning playwright Kirsty Budding, the collection includes a helpful prologue with advice on performing monologues, followed by conveniently organised thematic sections with illustrations to indicate drama or comedy.Fantasy & Fairytales (Fairies, Mermaids, Wizards and more!);Greek and Norse Mythology (Thor, Loki, Zeus, Hercules, Hades, Medusa?);Teen Life (exam stress, romance, social media, sibling rivalry, cyber bullying?);Secret Agents and Espionage (meet James Blonde and the agent who trained John Wick!);Comedy (laugh out loud as kids play teachers, dance divas, the Queen of England and more!);Drama (loss of grandparents, moving schools, growing up?),Classic Literary Characters (Oliver Twist, Jo March, Jane Eyre?);Historical Figures (Julius Caesar, Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr...); Shakespeare (Romeo, Romeo; To Be or Not to Be?)Perfect for auditions, school drama classes and performances, length and difficulty levels range to provide exciting options for children and teenagers ages 5-19. The book is ideal for families with children of different ages, as well as for use in schools with multiple year groups.With a range unheard of in a monologue collection, it's the perfect resource for a young performer to use again and again on their acting journey. "Playing Thor is awesome! I just love all of it, it's super funny!" - Harper Scott, age 9"I love the 'Messy Room' monologue! I think my Mum does too..." - Breanna Kelly, age 15"I really enjoyed performing the School Principal monologue - great writing and a funny and relatable scenario!" - Robert Wearden, age 17"I admire Kirsty Budding's dry humour and wit in the monologue Almost Twenty. It got lots of laughs when I performed it for a university assignment because everyone could relate to those challenges and frustrations of becoming an adult." - Cecilia Waugh, age 19"Kirsty Budding is a name to watch." - Stage Whispers

Download or read book Unbearable Hotness written by Gabriel Davis and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play in one act. Comedy. Cast: 3 women, 3 men. Synopsis: Andrew has thrown a house party in hopes that the girl of his dreams, Marisa, will attend. Once he learns she is somewhere in his home, he becomes set on winning her heart. Matters are complicated when Chuck arrives bent on the same goal, followed by Jill who reveals her ex boyfriend is pursuing Marisa. Beatrice (aka "Benny"), a tom-boy, watches on amused as her peers become more and more frenzied over the unbearably hot object of their affections. When Marisa finally enters, passions run high and Chuck is almost killed! In the end, an unexpected twist unites Marisa with her true love.