ACT Normal: Mark Wheeller Contemporary Monologues
Act Normal includes 31 contemporary monologues from Too Much Punch For Judy, Hard To Swallow, Missing Dan Nolan, I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die, Game Over ... and many more of Mark's plays and musicals.
Written with young performers in mind and available for classroom or audition use, they offer a range of characters and topics - both comic and serious - along with acting notes for each monologue. Many of the monologues are verbatim, providing a unique opportunity for actors and directors to explore this exciting form. Act Normal is the first exclusive collection of Mark's monologue work.
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Surprise your teacher, your friends, your family, your audience and last but not least, yourselves!'
- Mark Wheeller
Monologue topics: True stories and verbatim pieces
- British World War II evacuee experience
- Testimony of world champion blind athlete Graham Salmon
- Account of sisters involved in a drink-driving accident
- Story of a woman's battle with anorexia
- A young woman's struggles breaking into the football world
- Two pieces on the life-changing consequences of a car accident
- Recounting of a prison assault
- Dan Nolan's 2002 disappearance
- Grooming and human trafficking
- Students excluded from the mainstream education system
- Accidental drug overdose
- Young people and self-harm
- Online predators
Fiction
- Absurdist, allegorical tale about a fantasy King
- Unplanned teenage pregnancy
- Fandom and mourning an idol (reference to David Bowie)
- Theatre in Education piece on road safety
Featured plays, with character options and ages (NB: all are suitable for performers of any age and gender)
- Blackout - Operation Pied Piper - Jean, aged 9
- Graham - World's Fastest Blind Runner - Junie, pre-teen/ Graham, adult
- Too Much Punch For Judy - Judy, young adult/ Duncan, adult
- Hard to Swallow - Anna, young adult/ John, adult
- Sweet (W)FA / Lethal In The Box - Miss Vallas, adult/ Spanner, adult
- Chicken! - Nut-Job, teenager/ Chris, teenager
- Legal Weapon 2 - Andy, young adult
- Wacky Soap - Storyteller, adult
- Missing Dan Nolan - Pauline, adult / Sarah, young teenager/ Andy, adult
- One Million to Stop The Traffik - Mary, adult
- Kids Who Look Out of the Window - Tonisha, teenager
- Chequered Flags to Chequered Futures - Jane, adult/ Driver, adult
- I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die - Jack, teenager
- Scratching the Surface - Louise, adult
- This Is For You - Susan, adult
- Can You Hear Me Major Tom? - Mark, adult/ Jasmine, adult
- Game Over - Lorin, adult
