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The Regina Monologues – Zoom Reading
March 26, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
We’re excited to be hosting a virtual reading of Rebecca Russel and Jenny Wafer’s brilliant play, The Regina Monologues. We’re looking to cast six women for this reading (details about how to get involved below), which will take place on Zoom on Friday 26 March at 7.30pm.
This event is free and open to all.
About the Play
“Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived…”
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.
Contains very strong language and adult themes.
Cast (6 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 looks 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.
How to get involved
Want to read one of the six parts? Great! We’d love you to record a short speech from the part you’d like to play. All six speeches can be viewed here.
You can film yourself or just record your voice, and you don’t have to learn the lines. We’d just like to see how you’d play the part. Please send in your recording to yorksettlementcommunityplayers@gmail.com by Tuesday 16 March (you can use WeTransfer if the file is really big). We’ll take a look at all the submissions then let you know by Friday 19 March who our cast will be.
If you’re interested in being a virtual audience member, please email Helen Wilson at helensallywilson@aol.com.