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a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix of published and unpublished works.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

Clean BreakIntroduction 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, MerleHead-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, KayHouse by Somalia Seaton, Mama Mercy Fine by Shelley Silas, Mercy 21.23.6.15 by Sandrine Uwayo, A VoiceAnd I and Silence by Naomi Wallace, Dee Permissions Acknowledgements