Selections from: Actor's lament / Steven Berkoff -- Birthday / Joe Penhall -- Black Jesus / Anders Lustgarten -- Blackout / Davey Anderson -- Blackta / Nathaniel Martello-White -- Bullet catch / Rob Drummond -- Can't forget about you / David Ireland -- Candide / Mark Ravenhill -- Casualties / Ross Ericson -- City love / Simon Vinnicombe -- The cow play / Ed Harris -- The effect / Lucy Prebble -- Even stillness breathes softly against a brick wall / Brad Birch -- The grand gesture / Deborah McAndrew -- Hidden in the sand / James Phillips -- A history of falling things / James Graham -- If you don't let us dream, we won't let you sleep / Anders Lustgarten -- Joe Guy / Roy Williams -- The kindness of strangers / Curious Directive -- Land of our fathers / Christ Urch -- A life of Galileo / Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Mark Ravenhill -- Playing with grown-ups / Hannah Patterson -- Red velvet / Lolita Chakrabarti -- The resistible rise of Arturo Ui / Bertolt Brecht, translated by George Tabori and revised by Alistair Beaton -- Skin tight / Gary Henderson -- Sucker punch / Roy Williams -- True Brits / Vinay Patel -- Wasted / Kate Tempest -- The whisky taster / James Graham.

This collection captures the best contemporary monologues for men, as well as celebrates the monologue as a piece for performance, with accompanying commentary engaging with real dramatic challenges and issues that the performer will face.