Last year’s monologue competition inspired hundreds of writers from all over the world to create a solo work on the theme ‘Me & My Masks.’ The variety of entries was breathtaking. This year’s festival theme is already striking its own powerful chord.

Last year’s entry monologues responded to the festival theme: ‘Me & My Masks’ with fascinating wholly original characters, each pursuing an agenda as unique as the imaginative genius of its author. Here are some of these fabulous entries.
I really should have titled this: How do you read new scripts?
So how do you? Please post a comment.
Apologies to you if you were waiting for this for a few weeks. I just realized I made this video in response to a question asked in one of my writers workshops. And I made the video weeks ago but forgot to post it. Oh dear. Well, here it is at last. Great question, by the way. I’d never have thought to ask it.
Then, a few weeks later Bill Crouch suggested a do-over. Apparently I’d buried the lead. So there’s this one, too:
Originally published at https://www.extracriticum.com.