About the Book:

Are you looking for a contemporary female monologue for an upcoming class or audition? Or looking for a Canadian play to produce, read, study?

Addressing themes such as adolescence, body, childhood memories, identity, mothers, and passion; She Speaks is a collection of contemporary Canadian monologues for women, intended for auditions, study or general interest. Includes monologues by: Ronnie Burkett, Drew Carnwath, Florence Gibson, Linda Griffiths, Daniel MacIvor, Yvette Nolan, Djanet Sears, Jason Sherman, Judith Thompson, Colleen Wagner and many others.

What people say:

"A monologue must give voice to those who have been silenced. The speaker must urgently need to speak, to proclaim, to persuade, to incite, to inspire, to agitate, to fabricate, to contaminate or whitewash, to justify; the speaker needs approval, or absolution, or acclaim, or worship, or laughter or sympathy. The monologue can only happen if the speaker has an audience. The monologue is ultimately the electric interaction between the audience and the speaker." — Judith Thompson, from the introduction

About the Editor:

Judith Thompson, OC is a highly esteemed Canadian playwright and educator. She has twice won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for White Biting Dog and The Other Side of the Dark. Other often-produced works include Sled, The Crackwalker, I Am Yours, Lion in the Streets and many more. In 2006 she was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada, and in 2008 she became the first Canadian to be awarded the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize honouring the best English-language women writers worldwide for her play Palace of the End. She is currently a professor at the University of Guelph for the School of English and Theatre Studies teaching courses in acting and playwriting.