SHORT MONOLOGUES FOR ACTING CLASSES

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Yes, I remember the long afternoons of our childhood, when I had to stay indoors to practice my music— The language in [this monologue] can be challenging, so it may require a dictionary nearby for the first read-through. But if you’re a headstrong, independent actor and looking for a character to showcase that, you may be the perfect witch to play her.” 5. “Romeo and Juliet”: Romeo

There are many reasons, both creative and utilitarian, why you might decide to audition with a one-minute monologue, including:But you know what? She doesn’t say a word about it. Ever. Not about the swearing, the things I called her, nothing. Just this, like, one tear I see … as we’re sitting at a stoplight on the way home. That’s all. And that robe disappeared. Gone. Sent away to the same place my mother’s clothes went, I assume. (Beat) Stop! Just don’t come any closer. I’m gonna give you the short version of an incredibly complicated and f— up situation, so please be cool. (beat) Some very bad guys strapped a bomb to my chest and they are forcing me to commit a crime. I wish I was joking, but I’m not. I know it’s a lot to swallow, but you gotta take it on face value, because there’s a timer attached to this thing and it’s counting down. I didn’t come here for help. I’m taking care of it. I came here because, should things not work out today as I would like them to, I want you to know why I was doing the things I did. (struggling) Do you remember when you found that picture in my car of you, me and Chet, with Chet cut out of it? I need you to remember about the picture, and about how I stop by your office every Friday, and how I’ve always hated all your boyfriends, and how the two girls I’ve ever seriously dated have looked like less attractive versions of you. Do you see where I’m going with this? I love you Kate. I have for a very long time. Every actor has a different process, but whatever that process is, make sure you do it. It’s easy to just learn the lines and wing it, but it won’t be your best work.

We hate a chance to miss out on the dozens of other immensely quotable lines from the play and the film it’s based on (“You go, Glen Coco!”). Still, Regina George’s amusing yet poignant reflections on gender, the afterlife, and getting hit by a bus make this a memorable monologue. Clara tries to come together with her sister so that they may get along better rather than arguing all of the time. It’s no good you going on. I can’t open sardines and answer the phone. I’ve only got one pair of feet. Hello….Yes, but there’s no one here, love…. No, Mr. Brent’s not here…He lives here, yes, but he don’t live here now because he lives in Spain… Mr. Philip Brent, that’s right…. They hook me up to a machine and take turns running electrical currents through my stumps. Just to see which fingers twitch a little and which ones remain lifeless.

Comedic monologues for teens

Consequently, a German soldier conducts a search of a house suspected of hiding Jews. Where does the hawk look? He looks in the barn, he looks in the attic, he looks in the cellar, he looks everywhere he would hide, but there’s so many places it would never occur to a hawk to hide. However, the reason the Führer’s brought me off my Alps in Austria and placed me in French cow country today is because it does occur to me. Because I’m aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of once they abandon dignity. For the next three years, they were allowed to see each other only once a year for two hours. But they wrote the most incredible, passionate letters every day, and they really made those two hours count. Thanks to her efforts, my grandfather was finally released, and they moved to the U.S. But every year, to this day, they spend a couple of weeks apart and then when they miss each other so much they can’t stand it, they meet in a tiny hotel room for exactly two hours and re-live the passion of their youth.

It’s a great scene for a timid teen who wants to expand his range and can be found in Act 1, Scene 1 beginning with, ‘You have her father’s love Demetrius.’” 4. “Henry VI Part 1”: Joan of Arc

Male Monologues from Movies

It’s like there’s a fire burning in the center of my head, Mary, and the pipe is the water that will put it out.

My mother had had the same exact bathrobe – in blue. Electric blue. What are the chances of that really? Go to the lobby, find someone who’s my size who’s wearing a white shirt, tell them I’ll trade him for a free computer and he can keep my shirt. Michelle confronts her sister over the drama she always seems to generate within their family unit. Zelda recounts finding a turtle in the road during her childhood in this thought-provoking monologue that questions how the actions of humans affect everything around us. This is a beautiful monologue for a female audition in the age range of the thirties, forties, and fifties. So Mary Beth, my therapist, says I flunked Peek-A-Boo. It’s that stage in development when a kid starts to trust her primary caretaker, to believe that he or she is there even if she can’t see him.Bottom explores the topsy-turvy nature of the liminal space between the dream world and reality through his realization that he probably didn’t actually land a beautiful fairy queen. Metatextually, he also amusingly reminds the audience that they, too, are engaging with a realistic-feeling work of fiction. Until today. Today my eyes died. I see the world through my mother’s eyes now. Yes, freedom has fangs. And it sunk them in me. Alison? Listen… It’s great to meet you, really. You’re a very attractive girl. But I should tell you right off the bat … this is not going anywhere.