Monologues are a rite of passage. A test of an actor's metal. A tool to sharpen one's teeth with. A challenge.

The Female Monologue Collection features 20 monologues gleaned from Playlab's extensive catalogue of Australian plays, including monologues from:

• Anna Robi and the House of Dogs (Anna)
  by Maxine Mellor


• Beyond the Neck (Visitor)
  by Tom Holloway


• Blurred (Freda)
  by Stephen Davis


• Colder (Robyn - Age 33)
  by Lachlan Philpott


• Colder (Robyn - Age 59)
  by Lachlan Philpott


• Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset (Constance)
  by Stephen Carleton


• The Danger Age (Albert)
  by Kate Mulvany


• Fractions (Hypatia)
  by Marcel Dorney


• The Ghost Writer (Brihanna)
  by Ross Mueller


• Keep Everything You Love (Emma)
  by David Brown


• Last Drinks (Maybellene)
  by Shaun Charles


• Magda's Fascination with Wax Cats (Magda)
  by Maxine Mellor


• Post Office Rose (Louie)
  by Linda Hassall


• The Seven Stages of Grieving (Woman)
  by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman


• Surviving Jonah Salt (Patricia)
  by Kathryn Ash, Stephen Carleton, Gail Evans and Anne Harris


• Surviving Jonah Salt (Trish)
  by Kathryn Ash, Stephen Carleton, Gail Evans and Anne Harris


• Urban Dingoes (Margret Mary)
  by Norman Price


• Urban Dingoes (Anne)
  by Norman Price


• Walking by Apple Tree Creek (Del)
  by Ian Brown


• The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay (Rachael)
  by Sean Mee