The Mono Box Speech Share Podcast

What you are about to hear are a selection of our favourite speeches from this podcast and also from the Monologue Library, a new free resource that you can find on our website.

Paapa Essiedu

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 

Marion Bailey

Broken Water by Michèle Winstanley

Ben Aldridge

Run The Beast Down by Titas Halder

Sirine Saba

Botticelli in the Fire by Jordan Tannahill

Youssef Kerkour

Impassioned Embraces (On Forgetting) by John Pielemeier

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Sir Derek Jacobi

Vanessa Kirby 

Danny Kirrane

Joseph Marcell 

Annie Tyson

Susan Wokoma

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The fourth of our SPEECH SHARE LIVE episodes recorded at Hampstead Theatre.  Our guests were:

SHEILA ATIM (Time is Love, Girl from the North Country, The Pale Horse, The Underground Railroad)

and

KENNETH CRANHAM (Heisenberg, The Father, Mr Jones, Valkyrie)

Book for the next LIVE recordings:

Saturday 28th March: MARION BAILEY and PAAPA ESSIEDU 

Saturday 18th April: INDIRA VARMA and SIOBHAN REDMOND

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The third of our SPEECH SHARE LIVE episodes recorded at Hampstead Theatre.  Our guests were:

The Mono Box patron JOSEPH MARCELL (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Omeros, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air),  

GINA MCKEE (Boudicca, The Mother, Bodyguard)

SIR SIMON RUSSELL BEALE (The Lehman Trilogy, King Lear, The Death of Stalin).

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The second of our new SPEECH SHARE LIVE episodes recorded at Hampstead Theatre on Sunday 3 November 2019, our guests were: our Patron SIR DEREK JACOBI (The King's Speech, The Hollow Crown), DENISE GOUGH (People, Places & Things, The Fall) and JENNA RUSSELL (Sunday in the Park with George, EastEnders)

Book for the next LIVE recording on Sunday 8th December 2019 with guests:

SIR SIMON RUSSELL BEALE, JOSEPH MARCELL and GINA MCKEE 

 https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/the-mono-box/speech-share-live/

The first of three of our brand new SPEECH SHARE LIVE episodes recorded at Hampstead Theatre on Sunday 6 October 2019, our guests were Prasanna Puwanarajah (Patrick Melrose, Doctor Foster) and Justine Mitchell (Shipwreck, Rutherford and Son).

Go to our website to book for future dates with more fantastic guests.

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BONUS EPISODE!! Speech Share developed following our monthly Speech Surgery Q&A's. As we've wrapped up season 1 we have a special treat. Have a listen to a session recorded at The Mono Box studio on a Sunday morning in October last year featuring KIRSTY RIDER, PAAPA ESSIEDU, HANNAH JOSS and ROY ALEXANDER WEISE

And watch this space for some exciting news about the next group of Speech Share episodes!

FINAL EPISODE OF SEASON 1!!  What happens when your career path reveals surprises? Susan Wokoma (Year of the Rabbit‏) talks to Polly and Joan about saying yes to more 'new and scary' opportunities. Susan then shares a speech from a play by Janice Okoh.

What was the genesis of the ERA 50:50 campaign? Deirdre Mullins (Man Down, C4) explains to Polly and Joan, as well as what her other acting related work involves.  Deirdre then performs a speech from her favourite character by the Bard.

Want to hear about Simon Manyonda's hilarious first "being in the moment" on-stage experience? Polly and Joan crack up as he tells them. Simon then performs a speech from a play by Moira Buffini