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Voices of Women is excited to announce the third series of performances in 2020. The unique performances celebrate fast fiction, slam readings and pop up performance.

CLEARWAY I
Friday 20 March + Saturday 21 March + Sunday 22 March

CLEARWAY II
Friday 3 April + Sunday 5 April
Articulate Project Space, 497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt NSW.

Experience two multi-sensory shows that powerfully express our humanity, humour and hope. Each performance presents ten different short stories written by Australian women who responded to a national call for submissions, performed in live readings by powerful theatrical and improvisation actors. A selection of works by First Nations women writers including Kirli Saunders, Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Brenda Saunders commences the readings.

The stories are infused with music for roaming flutes and piano written by contemporary composer Elizabeth Jigalin. All set against a backdrop of sculptural forms by Rox De Luca, that draw attention to the serious global issue of plastic waste.

You will find all the information here: https://voiceswomen.com//

You can subscribe here:  https://voiceswomen.com//contact/

We look forward to meeting you!

best wishes
Lliane Clarke
Director
monologue@optusnet.com.au

Voices of Women is excited to announce the third, annual, national writing competition in 2020. This unique competition celebrates fast fiction, slam readings and pop up performance events as it calls for short pieces in the first person to be read by professional actors.

CLEARWAY: create the space is an unusual and unique writing method that calls for writers to create ‘to the space’. Unlike most writing competitions, it has an open theme – all topics are considered – but the writers must choose from three voices and interpret them as wildly and playfully as they like.

Jump over to our NEW WEBSITE and subscribe to ensure you are up to date with all the competition details!

You will find all the information here: https://voiceswomen.com//

You can subscribe here:  https://voiceswomen.com//contact/

We look forward to hearing from you at our NEW WEBSITE!

best wishes
Lliane Clarke
Director
monologue@optusnet.com.au

 

We are excited to publish all the stunning stories from this year’s Monologue Adventure: Voices of Women. Four have been selected by Verity La Creative Journal.

Read all the stories HERE!

Check out the photo gallery HERE!

Over 166 submissions and 20 stories performed. The performances and stories were moving, inspiring, funny and came from diverse communities all over Australia.

Our actors Sage Godrei, Julia Christensen, Umima Shah-Munro and Clare Grant, with Guest Artist Teena McCarthy were intensely engaging. The audience said they loved the way that the Leichhardt Town Hall was momentarily turned into a lounge room! Photographer Noni Carroll captured the event beautifully.

Thank you to everyone who came along, helped out in kind, supported the event publically, and took part in this year’s Monologue Adventure: Voices of Women.

What’s next? We are talking to our partners and networks about ideas for next year, to create another extraordinary cross platform, multi disciplinary Adventure in 2020. Our aims are to tour the performances, and to develop Adventures for specific communities. We’ll keep you in the loop!

In the meantime, if you would like to become involved in The Adventure, we are creating a not for profit organisation that can apply for sources of funding and philanthropy, please keep in contact. And if you would like to support the Adventure to pay the artists and venues, please consider a donation.

Stay in touch! 

See you at the next Adventure!

best wishes,
Lliane Clarke

This time next week the Leichhardt Town Hall in the inner west of Sydney will come alive with stories of women all over Australia over two performances on Mothers Day Sunday 12 May and one performance Monday 13 May.

Tickets online HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Monologue Adventure encouraged all writers, including First Nations, culturally and linguistically diverse and LGBTI communities and people living with disabilities, to take part.  An amazing 166 monologues were submitted this year, of which 20 were selected to be presented live.

Women have always had powerful stories to share. And the act of writing is itself an empowerment, whether or not it leads to an outcome of commercial or artistic merit.

This year the theme was Stormy Seas, Safe Haven, which the writers responded to by expressing their own tempestuous lives, relationships, situations and moments of peace and reconciliation. The readings are structured around the movement of a wave breaking out at sea, the foaming violence of the wave top, the sliding green power of the water and pools of stillness.

The Monologue Adventure comes from the tradition of slam poetry and fast forward theatre. However, a unique part of its identity is the performance of the monologues in rehearsed readings by professional actors and artists. This year we are presenting five incredibly powerful women actors and performance artists to bring the monologues to life – Clare Grant, Julia Christensen, Sage Godrei, Umima Shah-Munro and performance artist Teena McCarthy. Read about them here.

Don’t miss this opportunity to experience live the stories of the lives we are living. See you there!

Tickets online HERE.

Watch the video from last year HERE!

Supported by Inner West Council #edgeinnerwest, Writing NSW, Verity La, Orana Arts.

 

 

 

 

Great news! We are excited to announce the final 20 writers in this year’s Monologue Adventure Voices of Women.

Submitted by 166 women writers all over Australia, the monologues explore the stormy seas and the safe havens of life. The stories and characters express the very real and powerful, intimate and explosive situations and imaginative journeys of women in Australia: yearning for home, a Stolen Generations memory, a hilarious attempt at predictive text, Beethoven and divorce, racism in the street and in job interviews, escaping an abusive relationship, jealousy, climate change, Instagram and breaking up, and more.

The writers include First Nations writers, emerging and established authors and writers from diverse cultural backgrounds. The women come from across the nation: from Kalamunda in Western Australia, Hallet Cove in South Australia, Lyra via Ballandean, Moreton Bay and Brisbane in Queensland, Newcastle, Young, Stanwell Park, Blacktown and Sydney in New South Wales, Canberra in the ACT, and Sale, Melbourne and Spotswood in Victoria.

Read about the writers and their stories HERE.

After sell out shows in 2018, this year the readings will transform Leichhardt Town Hall with five amazing women performers.

The readings are presented by four extraordinarily talented women actors: the amazing Julia Christensen, Sage Godrei, Clare Grant and Umima Shah-Munro and performance artist and artist Teena McCarthy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grab a ticket and join us at The Monologue Bar before or after each show.

Tickets online HERE.

Supported by Writing NSW, Inner West Council, Orana Arts, Verity La.
#edgeinnerwest

 

We’ve had over 166 submissions this year, twice the amount of last year, from women all over Australia. Submissions are now closed, and our actors are all confirmed!

The stories have come from states all over Australia, from Western Australia to Queensland and NSW, Victoria and South Australia. The stories come from regional and urban areas, and are being curated now and the results will be in on April 26. We will be selecting 20 stories, each 3 minutes, to create a stunning event of just an hour. The stories range across all of our lives and are written from the heart. The final list will be published here on April 26.

We’re excited this year to present five performing artists to bring these stories to life: Julia Christensen, Umima Shah-Munro, Teena McCarthy, Clare Grant and Sage Godrei. Read all about these amazing women here.

The Inner West Council #edgeactivation will see the monologues and stories read in Leichhardt Town Hall, transformed into an intimate space for the stories. Don’t forget to say for the conversation at The Monologue Bar.

We look forward to seeing you on May 12 or May 13. Tickets are selling now, so ensure you have a seat for THE MONOLOGUE ADVENTURE: VOICES OF WOMEN online here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are excited that The Monologue Adventure moves to the Leichhardt Town Hall this year as part of the Inner West Council’s EDGE Activation program.

It’s a big space, and the challenge is to create intimacy and empowerment within that. The Adventure is absolutely committed to audience immersion, maintaining a sense of direct connection with the text and with the actors within the space. We are going to explore lighting design within that framework and can’t wait to get into the space and play!

SAVE THE DATE!
The dates for The Monologue Adventure performances at Leichhardt Town Hall this year are again around Mother’s Day. Two performances will take place on Sunday 12 May, and one performance on Monday 13 May. 

From their expert editorial team, Verity La will select, pay and publish the top three writers performed at The Monologue Adventure: Voices of Women.

Called “the future of Australian online publishing” Verity La Creative Journal and the extraordinary team with Michele Seminara have been pushing the boundaries and publishing outstanding Australian and international writers in fiction, poetry and non-fiction.

Established in 2010 Verity La is an on-line, no-way-for-profit, creative arts journal, publishing short fiction and poetry, cultural comment, photomedia, reviews, and interviews. As it says on the mast-head, bravery is essential in the Verity La neck of the woods, which means creative risk-taking, freedom, and – above all else – being no one but yourself.

Check out Verity La here and subscribe to their amazing journal. And celebrate!

The Monologue Adventure: Voices of Women Submissions close 14 April, 2019.

Download the entry form here! #getwriting