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  • 1.  One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-22-2025 18:00

    I am looking for a  short one woman show or long monologue for a woman that is a comedy or comedy/drama that my student can direct me in. She has been studying directing this year and needs a final project. I cannot pass for twenty, thirty or fourty....could be  ageless.  Thank you for your help

    Cathy



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  • 2.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-23-2025 10:07

    What the Constitution Means to Me is incredible, but not short. Perhaps an edited version if it's available?



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    Katie Blackerby Weible
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  • 3.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-23-2025 10:10

    How about The Belle of Amherst about Emily Dickinson?



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  • 4.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-23-2025 18:53

    Take a look at HIGH DIVE by Leslie Avasian.

    It's fun and funny!



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  • 5.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-25-2025 12:22

    We have a couple of one woman shows that might be interesting to you.

     The first is Mark St. Germain's ELEANOR, about Eleanor Roosevelt.  ELEANOR is an up-close-and-personal examination of the most important First Lady in history, the times in which she lived, and the personal cost of being the largely private wife of a public figure, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who loomed larger than life at a time when this nation, and the world at large, needed it most.

    https://www.theatricalrights.com/show/eleanor/

    The second is THE UNFORTUNATES by Aoise Stratford.  In this intimate ghost story, Mary Jane Kelly has a problem. She's a pound forty behind in her rent, her window is broken, she has lost her key, and her boyfriend just moved out. And it's 1888-not a good time to be poor and "unfortunate" on the streets of London. Somewhere out there in the foggy shadows, Jack the Ripper, one of the world's most notorious criminals is at work. Mary only has two ways to secure her own front door. One of them is prostitution. The other is selling something she shouldn't have in the first place, something she'll have to betray her murdered best friend and herself to give up.

    https://www.theatricalrights.com/show/the-unfortunates/ 



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  • 6.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-26-2025 12:38
    Claire!  
    A student did this a few years ago. Strong piece. (Sorry I don't have the author hand just now). 


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  • 7.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-27-2025 08:50

    The Yellow Wallpaper adapted by Strangio and Thorold is brilliant. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote such a haunting novella and the adaptation does justice to it. It is one woman interacting with her own recorded voice.  I believe Currency Press has the it. 



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  • 8.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-26-2025 08:40

    My solo show "TEA FOR THREE: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty" written with Eric H Weinberger is in three sections. You could even do one of the sections on Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, or Betty Ford. funny and moving. . Available through Dramatic Publishing.



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  • 9.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-27-2025 08:49

    Have a look at the monologue, "Hamstering."  Although performed by a man in the video linked below, it could easily have been performed by a woman.

    Video link:  https://youtu.be/Ry2C5ESuoeM

    Let me know if you're interested in using this monologue, and I'll send you the script.



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  • 10.  RE: One woman show or long monolque

    Posted 05-28-2025 11:11

    You might take a look at Dream House: A Rainy Day Play by Jeremy Gable.
    https://www.youthplays.com/play/dream-house-a-rainy-day-play-by-jeremy-gable-360

    Cheers,
    Jonathan



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