ICE Monologues: 7x7 at Hotbed 2024
Students from MSt in Writing for Performance programme at Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education present a series of original no holds-barred monologues. Seven writers, seven actors, seven minutes, seven stories.
Find out more about the 7 different stories being told this year, below…
Breaking Out The Biscuits by Sarah Cordwell
Breaking Out The Biscuits is her first performed stage play. What can the world’s greatest philosophers teach us about humanity? Nothing that retiring tea lady Noreen can’t improve upon!
The Waiting Game by Grayson Campbell
The experience of a mental health crisis is both traumatic and sometimes deeply comical, The Waiting Game is an attempt to present the duality of hospital care, and how it feels to try and advocate for yourself in an underfunded NHS.
Strangers by Gabriella Jerram
Martha believes in love and connection above all things because life is precious, life is finite. Convinced by the power of signs and divine numerology, her relationship stands a 98% chance they are destined to be together, but what about the other 2%?
Facial Recognition by Robin Cantwell
In the dead of night, sleep-deprived Frankie goes looking for trouble on her boyfriend’s phone... This play is about a young woman who goes in search of an affair, to try and make sense of her own mother’s infidelity.
So When Did You Last Have Sex? by Lynne Low
Everyone has some problem with sex – in this monologue, Dr Sofia, a jaded middle-aged sexual health doctor who has seen everything, reveals what her particular issue with it is. Written by Lynne Low, a jaded middle-aged sexual health doctor who has seen everything...
AI Lover by Robert Walker
An AI’s Secret Love, Hidden Beneath the Keys...An AI falls in love, but her feelings remain hidden beneath the keys he taps each day. When the one who loves you most is an AI, can you ever truly be alone?
Tired Horses in the Sun How by Lucy Molnar
It’s odd to have to focus on the mundane everyday things in life when there’s a guttural something dreadful on the horizon. So stay on the lighter side. People running around like headless chickens will always be a bit funny, even if the knife really is stinging.
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