Monologuewords: A workshop about writing and performing monologues with Jenni Munday

A good monologue is hard to write, and hard to perform. During a recent season of performances of 10 monologues presented at the Meat Market theatre space in North Melbourne, 8 performers rehearsed with Jenni, as director, to perform 10 monologues by different playwrights in a season called Metropolis Monologues. This talk/presentation will take one of the monologues and talk about the process of analysing the work for performance using the ideas of Mike Alfreds, a highly regarded English director, and consider elements of the process of “bringing it to life” with the actor. A recording of the performance will be shown at the conclusion of the presentation.

Jenni has been creating works in the Visual and Performing Arts for many years. She is known for her innovative performances in spaces other than theatres, several of which have had successful Australian productions, including Tom’s Women, by Geoffrey Sykes, which toured regional Victoria and New South Wales and was well reviewed at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. She has also worked overseas with Flush Ink Productions in Canada and has had a residency with the American Place Theatre Company in New York, who specialise in adapting novels for live performance.

Works resulting from two arts residencies in Iceland have been included in Endangered exhibition at Ambush gallery in Sydney at the end of 2024. And Cries from the Anthropocene which was held at the H.R.Gallop gallery in March 2024, and at The Chapel, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra during April 2024.

Jenni has been awarded another arts residency in 2025 at Studio Faire in Nérac, France.