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Like every week we post a monologue for you to enjoy. This week it’s from Shakespears’ “The Merchant of Venice” Let me say this is one of my favorite plays, and there are just so many monologues worth while. Funny enough, they arent as used for auditions as they could be so they still seem refreshingly unexpected. This one is by the Prince of Morrocco as he deliberates which chest to open: gold, silver or lead. : Continue reading MONOLOGUE: “Deliver me the key” (male,classical, comedic)  Like every week we post a monologue for you to enjoy. This week it’s from Kellie Powells’ play: Collaboration. It is a contemporary female role. Kim confesses to her friend (and sometimes-lover) Shanehat she has been in love with him for several years. Continue reading MONOLOGUE: “Collaboration” by Kellie Powell (female, contemp.) Like every week we post a monologue for you to enjoy. This week it’s from August Strindberg play: The Father. It is a senior male role. Enjoy CAPTAIN: Come in, and we’ll talk. I heard you out there listening. It is late, but we must come to some decision. Sit down. [Pause] Continue reading MONOLOGUE: “CAPTAINS MONOLOGUE” By August Strindberg (male, Dramatic, 1916) Ike: “Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion.” Uh, no, make that: “He-he…romanticized it all out of proportion. Now…to him…no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.” Ahhh, now let me start this over. “Chapter… Continue reading MONOLOGUE: “Manhattan” By Woody Allen. (Male, contemporary) NASTYA: At night he came into the garden. I had been waiting for him quite awhile. I trembled with fear and grief–he trembled, too . . . he was a white as chalk–and he had the pistol in his hand . . . and he says to me in a dreadful voice: “My precious darling … Continue reading MONOLOGUE: THE LOWER DEPTHS by Maxim Gorky (Female, dram.) DOÑA BARBARITA: I was jealous of every woman my first husband looked in the face … and he was a portrait painter, do you remember? My second husband suffered tortures from his own jealousy … of your grandfather. That was premature, but prophetic, for your dear grandfather was our neighbor in those days and he used to stand and look at me from his balcony. And then he in his turn tortured himself… Continue reading MONOLOGUE: THE ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY by Gregorio Martinez (Femae, comedic, 1920′s) JOHN: How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune? Everything has gone wrong with me since the day I was born. Whatever I put my hand to fails utterly. You know it better than I do. I was brought up to be rich, and I am poor. I studied law, and I cannot string three words together. A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly. To save the little that remains to us after the folly of my father, I need to be unscrupulous and bold, yet my mother, God bless her, has taught me to be good, good, always good! Yes, laugh … but this is not living.… Continue reading MONOLOGUE: POOR JOHN by Gregorio Martinez Sierra (Male, comedy, contemp)
BACHELOR: To wed, or not to wed;–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in a man to suffer And at the altar end them. To woo–to wed– Devoutly to be wished. To woo–to wed;– That makes celibacy of so long life; Continue reading MONOLOGUE:THE BACHELOR’S SOLILOQUY by Anonymous (male, classic, comedy) BOB makes some extra money killing noisy dogs for bothered neighbors. HE then meets AMBER, who – typically, as SHE does with every man – falls in love with HIM after one encounter. In this monologue, AMBER calls BOB and leaves a message on his answering machine.. Continue reading MONOLOGUE: DOG ASSASSIN by Stephen A Schrum (Female, contemporary) GREG: I said what are your intentions Johnny? I know. You come here to Phoenix to sell me your frames, maybe fit in some ‘gars and golf. But intentions… The fact of the matter is John our father’s taught us well. Price. Margins. Inventory. The power of a handshake… Continue reading MONOLOGUE: ETA: PHOENIX by Nick Zagone (male, contemp, comedic) At 17, MICHELLE is bright and direct in her group therapy session. Applying lipstick, SHE addresses the audience as the group… Continue reading MONOLOGUE: ELEPHANT by Margie Stokley (Female, Teen, 1980) HALEY, a successful restaurateur and single mom- in her late 30s early 40s, thinks shes finally met Mr Right. In the monologue she calls her brother for advice and then the date. (She reaches for the phone and dials) HALEY: Hey, its me. No, not yet, he’s coming over tonight. B.J. stop it! I’m too nervous right now you cant make fun of me. Yes. Ha ha. Yes of course I got rid of her, she’s spending the night at Emily’s. No, honey, he more than assumes, its been stated specifically, the plan is that he comes over, we order Chinese take-out and then actually do the deed on the living room floor before the food even gets here. (she laughs)What? I guess… Continue reading MONOLOGUE: BAD DATES by Theresa Rebeck (Female, Contemporary) LEE is a wisecracking, cynical, private investigator. In this monologue, he’s talking to some other guys in a bar about his views on marriage. LEE: I don’t know. Being married… Its like…Its like chewing the same damn gum over and over and over for the rest of your life. Sometimes, sometimes you need some new gum!… Continue reading MONOLOGUE: DRIFT by Jon Tuttle (Male, Contemporary, Comedic) |
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