Mastering Monologues: Practitioner-Inspired Techniques for Performance and Coursework

Mastering Monologues: Practitioner-Inspired Techniques for Performance and Coursework Across Curricula.

This resource is designed to empower students and teachers across multiple curricula—IGCSE, IB, and other international programs—to explore, rehearse, and perfect monologues in both devised pieces and solo performances. The material includes a curated list of published plays with strong monologues, character guidance, and practitioner-inspired staging techniques, ensuring students can develop voice, movement, and dramatic interpretation to achieve maximum impact.

The techniques outlined can also be applied in written exams, where students are required to critique performances from pre-release material, fostering critical thinking alongside practical performance skills. Teachers can incorporate these strategies into classroom workshops, rehearsals, and staged coursework, helping students navigate classical, contemporary, and devised performance styles.

From Stanislavski’s naturalism to Brecht’s epic theatre, Artaud’s theatre of cruelty, Lecoq’s physical theatre, Beckett’s absurdism, and Boal’s interactive theatre, this resource provides an inclusive toolkit for dramatic exploration. It is equally suited for exam preparation, devised theatre, solo monologues, and classroom demonstration, giving students both confidence and technical mastery.

By using these monologues and techniques, students gain the vocabulary, confidence, and stylistic awareness necessary to excel in performance and written components, while teachers gain a versatile framework for teaching, directing, and assessing dramatic work.

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