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Regina Monologues, The

"Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived..."

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Admired, vilified, de-humanised. Three Catherines, two Annes and a Jane. Six women with one thing in common -- marriage to a man called Henry -- have passed into historical legend. Of course, it couldn't happen these days...

Six modern women have also married one man.  Their lives are both separate and intertwined as they tell their stories from a room in which they have all once lived. Their experiences -- miscarriage, love affairs, betrayal, and a shared loathing of all things ginger -- are portrayed with humour, pathos and a great deal of wine.

The plight of those sixteenth century women is personal, poignant and still relevant five hundred years on.

Premiere Production: The Regina Monologues was first presented by Tidemark Theatre at the Abbey Theatre, St Albans on July 10th, 2004.
  • Casting: 6F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female

  • CATHY - Is the discarded wife.
    ANNIE - Is the faded beauty. Worn out with partying.
    JANE - Is pale and vulnerable with an air of simplistic naivety.
    ANNA - Is older than her years. Striking and intelligent. Wears a wig.
    KATIE - Is sometimes vulnerable and childlike, sometimes the assured teenager.
    KATHERINE - Is the composed widow. She is determined and single minded.
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    Admired, vilified, de-humanised. Three Catherines, two Annes and a Jane. Six women with one thing in common -- marriage to a man called Henry -- have passed into historical legend. Of course, it couldn't happen these days...

    Six modern women have also married one man.  Their lives are both separate and intertwined as they tell their stories from a room in which they have all once lived. Their experiences -- miscarriage, love affairs, betrayal, and a shared loathing of all things ginger -- are portrayed with humour, pathos and a great deal of wine.

    The plight of those sixteenth century women is personal, poignant and still relevant five hundred years on.

    $24.95