- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
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, G ame 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.
' 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
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Information
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Blackout – Operation Pied Piper (1983)
- Blackout – Operation Pied Piper (2)
- Graham – World’s Fastest Blind Runner (1984)
- Graham – World’s Fastest Blind Runner (2)
- Too Much Punch For Judy (1987)
- Too Much Punch For Judy (2)
- Too Much Punch For Judy (3)
- Hard to Swallow (1989)
- Hard to Swallow (2)
- Sweet (W)FA/Lethal In The Box (1991)
- Sweet (W)FA/Lethal In The Box (2)
- Chicken! (An early version) (1992)
- Chicken! (2)
- Legal Weapon (1996)
- Wacky Soap (2000)
- Missing Dan Nolan (2002)
- Missing Dan Nolan (2)
- Missing Dan Nolan (3)
- One Million to Stop The Traffik (2010)
- Kids Who Look Out of the Window (2011)
- Chequered Flags to Chequered Futures (2014)
- Chequered Flags to Chequered Futures (2)
- Chequered Flags to Chequered Futures (3)
- I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die (2016)
- Scratching the Surface (2016)
- This Is For You (2017)
- Can You Hear Me Major Tom? (2019)
- Can You Hear Me Major Tom? (2)
- Game Over (2019)
- Game Over (2)
- Game Over (3)