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a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix of published and unpublished works.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.

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Alice Birch's previous work at the Royal Court includes Peckham: The Soap Opera and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (RSC). Other credits include: We Want You To Watch (National), The Lone Pine Club (Pentabus), Little Light (Orange Tree), Little on the Inside (Almeida / Clean Break), Salt (Comedie de Valence), Many Moons (Theatre 503), Flying the Nest (BBC Radio 4) and Lady Macbeth (BBC Films / BFI / Creative England). Alice was the co-winner of the 2014 George Devine Award for Revolt. She said. Revolt Again and winner of the Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting 2014.

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Clean Break
Introduction Lucy Perman
Acknowledgements
Little on the inside by Alice Birch, B
[ BLANK ] by Alice Birch, A
Black Crows by Linda Brogan, Leonora
Jadan by Danni Brown, Jadan
Joanne by Deborah Bruce, Kath
Didn't Die by Annie Caulfield, Dinah
Thick as Thieves by Katherine Chandler, Karen
Spent by Katherine Chandler, Nat
Apache Tears by Lin Coghlan, Merle
Head-Rot Holiday by Sarah Daniels, Helen
Trainers by Raina Dunne AKA Titch, Ellie
Fingertips by Suhayla El-Bushra, Kidisti
Pests by Vivienne Franzmann, Pink
Sounds like an Insult by Vivienne Franzmann, Brenda
Blis-ta by Sonya Hale, Kat
Daddycation by Katie Hims, Jess
The Garden Girls by Jacqueline Holborough, Mary
Killers by Jacqueline Holborough, The Prisoner
FKA Queens by Theresa Ikoko, Ngozi
Firm by Daisy King, Stevie
it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now by Lucy Kirkwood, Dijana
Wicked by Bryony Lavery, Rosie
That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Katherine
Typical Girls by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Munch
Amazing Amy by Laura Lomas, Amy
Inside a Cloud by Sabrina Mahfouz, Carly
A Bitch like Me by Natasha Marshall, Lesha
Fatal Light by Chloë Moss, Jay
This Wide Night by Chloë Moss, Marie
Amongst the Reeds by Chinonyerem Odimba, Gillian
Te Awa I Tahuti (The River that Ran Away) by Rena Owen, Toni
Mules by Winsome Pinnock, Allie
Taken by Winsome Pinnock, Della
Yard Gal by Rebecca Prichard, Boo
Joanne by Ursula Rani Sarma, Grace
Red by Anna Reynolds, Kay
House by Somalia Seaton, Mama
Mercy Fine by Shelley Silas, Mercy
21.23.6.15 by Sandrine Uwayo, A Voice
And I and Silence by Naomi Wallace, Dee
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