Be Someone Today

BE SOMEONE TODAY is a collection of six contemporary monologues for actors, students and teachers.

Written for performance, the pieces offer emotionally truthful, character-led material suitable for auditions, classroom work, drama school preparation, workshops, rehearsal and individual study.

The collection includes:

Ordinary Man

Rocket

Half of Me

Half of Her

All of Me

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Several pieces in this collection have been adapted into short films, selected for festivals, or developed from award-winning screen work, including Ordinary Man from the multi-award-winning web series Incoming: Words of War.

The collection gives performers the chance to explore humour, vulnerability, tension, memory, identity, grief, family, survival and emotional turning points.

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Six contemporary monologues

Suitable for actors, students, teachers, drama schools, audition preparation, workshops, classroom work and rehearsal exploration.

Content note

Some monologues contain strong language and mature themes, including grief, family trauma, domestic abuse, violence, addiction, abandonment and sexual abuse. Teacher, director and facilitator discretion is advised.

Usage note

Purchase of this PDF allows the buyer to read, print and use the monologues for personal study, classroom work, audition preparation, character study, scene study and rehearsal exploration.

This purchase does not include public performance rights.

Public performances, public staged readings, filmed versions, publication, redistribution, uploading, sharing, photocopying for wider use, or any commercial use require prior written permission from the playwright.

For performance rights and enquiries, please contact Kerry Drumm via kerrydrummwords.com.