Monologue Research 1

Glass Eels - Nell Leyshon

Set in 2003.
Nell Leyshon is a British dramatist and novelist.
She was born in Glastonbury, England, and lives in the county of Dorset. She attended the University of Southampton, gaining a first in English Literature.

Love and Information - Caryl Churchill

Churchill was born in London, England, the daughter of Jan, a fashion model, and Robert Churchill, a political cartoonist. After World War II, her family emigrated to Montreal, Canada; Churchill was ten years old. In Montreal, she attended Trafalgar School for Girls.
She returned to England to attend university, and in 1960 she graduated from Lady Margaret Hall, a women’s college at Oxford University, with a B.A. degree in English Literature. She also began her writing career there. Her four earliest plays, Downstairs (produced 1958),You've No Need to be Frightened, Having a Wonderful Time (1960), and Easy Death (produced 1962) were performed by Oxford-based theatrical ensembles-student drama groups.

Her Love and Information, opened at the Royal Court Theatre in September 2012, directed by James Macdonald. It gained great critical and popular acclaim. The play, featuring 100 characters and performed by a cast of 15, is structured as a series of more than 50 fragmented scenes, some no longer than 25 seconds, all of which are apparently unrelated but which accumulate into a startling mosaic, a portrayal of modern consciousness and the need for human intimacy, love and connection.

Many Moons - Alice Birch

Alice Birch's debut full-length play sets itself up as the gentlest of romances. Ollie is nervous, fearsomely intelligent, and finds people more mysterious than the constellations. The ripely named Juniper Jessop is an optimistic free spirit "actively looking for love", with the heavens mapped out on her bedroom ceiling. If only their paths could cross ... But then there is Meg, heavily pregnant, her mind sharpened to a scalpel point by disappointment and loneliness.

Love Steals Us From Loneliness - Gary Owen

Gary was born in Pembrokeshire in 1972, and was raised in Narberth, Clynderwen and Bridgend.
He was educated at Brynteg Comprehensive School, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark.
He lives in Splott.

National Theatre Wales, in collaboration Sherman Cymru, brought Gary Owen, one of Wales’ foremost playwrights back to his hometown of Bridgend in October 2010 with Love Steals Us From Loneliness.
In a play steeped with local references and voices, Gary explored the lives of today’s young people and gave us a glimpse of what can happen when one life changing evening goes horribly wrong. Director John E McGrath and the cast worked with local young people, including Bridgend Youth Theatre, and Bridgend Further Education College students to explore the play’s themes and characters
and to ensure the authenticity of the production.
Young people became involved in the production in many ways, including an online project ourbridgend.com. The play was performed in a local music venue, Hobo’s rock club, to packed audiences, who found themselves involved in a Halloween club night, a karaoke evening and, most importantly, an extraordinary exploration of love, grief and hope.
The widely-praised cast included two Bridgend natives, Katie Elin-Salt and Mark Sumner, as well as Remy Beasley, Nia Roberts and Matthew Trevannion