Fifty-three monologues provide dramatic, funny, angry, & sexual performance opportunities.

The seventh volume of America's best-selling monologue series for women. All monologues are excerpted from plays produced during the 1998 theatrical season.

Staged by Clean Break, leading theatre company working with women prisoners.

It's 1909 and the shirtwaist industry in New York is making profits of $50 million. But the young girls who work in the factories earn barely enough to live on, and their working conditions are brutal. When their pleas for help are rejected by the male-dominated union, the young girls who work at Johannsen's Shirtwaist Factory band together to fight for a better life. They endure beatings, starvation, and even prison but ultimately prevail ... This play is based on real people and actual events.

THE STORY: It's Bella's twenty-ninth birthday. Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate. But as the Bloody Marys flow, the bar becomes a battlefield. In the uncivil war between the sexes, what happens when the females have the real f