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Scene Work taken from the play that you are doing your Monologue from.

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A short Australian play based on teenage self image and how one defines themselves in peer group and with relationships. The use of paper bags over her head and life like puppets to represent extraneous characters add non-naturalistic surreal feel to her position.

RICHARD the Third- Shakespeare

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Richard has helped his brother take on the crown of England. He is deformed and inherently evil in his intent to manipulate and take power by turning people against each other. He ends up eith the crown but his lust for power and control costs him his life in the battle field :My kingdom for a horse'.

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ANTIGONE Sophocles

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The play begins with Antigone and her sister Ismene discussing the decree after battle that one of their brothers wil be buried with all burial rights and the other will be left to the birds as he was a traitor to the new king, their uncle Creon. Antigone says that she must bury her brother Polyneices and cannot as his sister leave him to enter the afterworld with out proper burial. She asks Ismene to help her try and bury him, she is in fear of Creon's law and refuses. The guard who is meant to have ensured no one touches the body and it is left to rot in the sun, appears before Creon explaining that someone has taken the body of Polyneices. Creon is furious and says he must find the culprit or pay with his life. Eyewitnesses turn Antigone in to Creon, her uncle who freely admits she buried her brother. Antigone, daughter of the cursed Oedipus and her sister Ismene are brought before Creon and she is ordered to death for disobeying his decree. Creon's son Haemon is to marry Antigone and comes before him with careful words suggesting that the people think that this punishment is too harsh. He ends the conversation by claiming he will take his own life if she is put to death. Creon is outraged at his sons disloyalty and sentences Antigone to be taken to a cave and locked in with food until she perishes. Antigone claims that it is her fathers sins that has brought this treachery on herself and her siblings. (Oedipus was doomed to marry his mother and kill the king his father Lauis) In a last effort to change Creon's mind the Seer(prophet) Teiresias a wise elder tells him to reconsider his decision or he to shall lose a child and leaves the angered at Creon's arrogance. Creon asks the choros what he should do and they say free Antigone, he agrees and says he will free her himself. Meanwhile a messenger has brought news that Haemon in despair has killed himself. He tells Euridyce, Haemon's mother (Creon's wife) How Creon buried the remains of Polyneices then went to the tomb to see a horrific sight. Antigone had hung herself with strips of material from her dress and Haemon was holding her body in tears, Haemon sees Creon and tries to stab him with his sword and then turns the blade on himself and dies next to Antigone. On hearing this news from the messenger Euryices runs into the house, curses Creon and stabs herself in the heart and dies. Creon is left to ponder at his lack of wisdom and tragedy as he is told of his wifes death. ANTIGONE Jean Anouilh []

HEARTBREAK HOUSE by Bernard Shaw

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3 people are placed together into a room after they have died,which is hell. They discover that they are in fact each others tormentors as each reveals their sins on earth.

Jean Paul Satre website on his existentialist beliefs - http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/index.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit wiki has a summary and links to the complete script

THE VISIT Friedrich Durrenmatt

OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD Timberlake wertenbaker

COSI Louis Nowra !!!!! Been there done that!!