The Shoplifter’s Monologue by Silvia Bombardini is a short play set at the turn of the 20th century and centred around its sole character, Lisa, and her reasons and techniques for stealing. Informed by Bombardini’s wider research into shoplifter's clothes at this time in history, the play considers the role that the inventive clothing Lisa might have worn, might have played in her shoplifting practice. The choice of monologue as a medium draws attention to the silence of female criminals in the archives where records of their thefts are kept, and to the absence of successful shoplifters and what they wore from these historical accounts.

200 × 166 mm, 36 pages
Softcover, 3-holes thread sewn
First edition of 250 copies
Designed by Studio Ardworks