The Vespers: 100 Contemporary Monologues for Everyone

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Have you ever struggled to find the perfect monologue Are you looking to expand your actors toolkit Do you want an original monologue to impress at your next audition Philip Ridley's The Vespers offers 100 original monologues for actors of all ages, all genders and all levels of experience. Varying in length, style and structure, this is an essential toolkit for any actor, written by one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary theatre voices. With 100 self-contained monologues to choose from, each monologue is free from context, age specification or character.

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The Vespers is utterly amazing. Ridleys writing is marvelously precise and constantly surprising in its twists and turns. At every point he manages to evoke ideas and feelings that are both thrilling and true. Its a supreme achievement by the most innovative and exciting contemporary British writer, whose words dazzle, make you think of the unthinkable, and tune you into wild and wonderful emotions that seem to echo from beyond the text. Read and be transported. * Aleks Sierz *
Ridleys play is completely and dizzyingly of itself. The writing seethes and burns.Seldom has sexual love been explored on stage with such ferocious honesty. * The Guardian (on Tender Napalm) *
Outstanding.Ridley at his imaginative besthis most moving and accessible adult play to date. * WhatsonStage (on Shivered) *

Author Bio

Philip Ridley was born and grew up in the East End of London. He studied painting at St Martins School of Art. He has written many highly regarded and hugely influential stage plays: the seminal The Pitchfork Disney (now published as a Methuen Modern Classic), The Fastest Clock in the Universe (winner of a Time Out Award, the Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the Meyer-Whitworth Prize), Ghost from a Perfect Place, Vincent River (nominated for the London Festival Fringe Best Play Award), the highly controversial Mercury Fur, Leaves of Glass, Piranha Heights (nominated for the WhatsOnStage Mobius Award for Best Off West End Production), Tender Napalm (nominated for the London Fringe Best Play Award), Shivered (nominated for the OffWestEnd Best New PlayAward), Dark Vanilla Jungle (winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award), Radiant Vermin (now published as a Methuen Modern Classic), Tonight With Donny Stixx, Karagula (nominated for the OffWestEnd Best New PlayAward), The Beast of Blue Yonder, The Poltergeist (winner of the OffWestEnd OnComm Award for Best Live Streamed Play) and Tarantula; plus several plays for young people (collectively known as The Storyteller Sequence): Karamazoo, Fairytaleheart, Moonfleece (named as one of the 50 Best Works About Cultural Diversity by the National Centre for Childrens Books), the seminal Sparkleshark (the first of the Connections Festival plays all written for young people to be staged professionally by the National Theatre), and Brokenville; also, Feathers in the Snow (shortlisted for the Brian Way Best Play Award).