'Twenty monologues for women. Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences..... ''The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let''s laugh now, even at ourselves'' - Franca Rame.....'' Set at the point where reality and ideology rub up against each other, [these] monologues are vivid, concise and entertaining comments on the female condition...comic-but-angry, raw-but-precise'' Independent. Includes: Rise and Shine; Alice in Wonderless Land; An Arab Woman Speaks; I''m Ulrike - Screaming; It Happened Tomorrow; A Mother'