If you want something dramatic, juicy and shows off your age range...Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon. The character Blanche has a very emotional monologue...she's talking to her daugheter, Nora, who just confessed she feels unloved.
"I am not going to let you hurt me Nora. I am not going to let you tell me I don't love you or I haven't tried to give you as much as I gave Laurie...God knows I'm not perfect, becaue enough angry people in this house told me so tonight. But I will not be a doormat for all the anger and frustation that you or Aunt Kate or anyone else wants to lay at my feet...I did not create this universe. I don't decide who lives or who dies. Who is rich or who is poor. Who feels loved or who feels deprived. And if you feel cheated that Laurie got more than you then I feel cheated that I had a husband that died at thirty-six. And if you keep on feeling that way then you'll end up like me, with something much worse than lonliness of helplessness and that's self-pity. Believe me, there's no leg that is twisted or bent that is more crippling than a human who thrives on his own misfortunes...I am sorry that you feel unloved Nora and I will do everything I can to change it; except apologize for it. I am tired of apologizing. After a while it becomes your life work and it doesn;t bring any money into the house...If it's taken your pain and Aunt Kate's anger to get me to start living again then God will give me the strength to make it up to you. I will not go back to being that frightened, helpless woman I created. I've already buried someone I love. Now it's time to bury someone I hate."
I did it in a little over three...just let the emotion rise and keep the blocking to a minimum. For reference, Laurie is her sick daughter; Nora is her daughter that wants to be a dancer; Aunt Kate is the sister she moved in with after her husband died who she doesn't get along with and they are very poor.
Costuming - it's late at night so a granny nightgown, tattered robe, messy bun and spectacles are good, she is about 50.
It's a challenge! But it comes out beautifully!
GOOD LUCK!
2006-06-29 05:19:39
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answered by Anonymous
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This one is from the play regulation & Order: Fairy tale Unit. I even have not have been given any clue if it is going to artwork for you or now not, yet my chum used it at an audition and function been given a place. it particularly is approximately Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall. It replaced into Thursday afternoon. i replaced into on my lunch harm. There i replaced into, sitting, minding my own agency. yet I wasn’t sitting fairly everywhere. No… No I wasn’t. i replaced into sitting on a wall. That’s precise, a wall! It recognized good adequate, useful. Why wouldn’t a wall be good? yet then, swiftly…with out warning…it gave way. till ultimately now i might desire to opt to get my bearings, I lost my stability, and…and that i fell. And it wasn’t fairly your common fall, no it wasn’t. It’s now not straight forward to describe the kind of fall it replaced into, yet…if I had to make your concepts up on a be unsleeping…I’d say it replaced into super. an excellent fall. It replaced into super. I regained information in a gurney over at King’s County. They did each and each little factor they might to repair my bone fractures, my torn joints…my broken soul. all the biggest familiar scientific medical doctors lent a hand—human scientific medical doctors, of direction yet as properly horse scientific medical doctors. After surgical therapy, the supervisor resident located his hoof in my hand and suggested me each and each little factor replaced into gonna be all precise. yet he replaced into all incorrect. no count kind kind how complicated they tried, they failed…they failed at putting me back mutually back. You wanna comprehend approximately my rather stability? Oh, I’ll be all precise. useful. I’ll stay to tell the story. yet after a fall of such—super—fee, i might desire to opt to diminish than no circumstances recuperate. Up actual right here [component of circulate]. And in actual right here [component of coronary heart]. And alongside actual right here. [element out the factor of pinky]. For those of you obtainable—you toddlers, fairly, pay interest to me and pay interest close. ‘reason I’ll fairly say it as without delay as: the subsequent time you notice a wall, appreciate that wall. And don’t sit down down on it. sit down down on a chair…or probably a futon.
2016-12-08 12:36:51
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I found a few sites that have some monologues for women -
http://www.artsonthemove.co.uk/resources/scripts/scriptswomen.html
http://www.actorpoint.com/free_monologues/0a.html
http://members.tripod.com/litagothic/girlmono.html
Good luck - knock 'em dead! ; )
2006-06-25 13:02:01
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answered by livysmom27 5
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A picture of paradise.
2006-06-25 22:21:41
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answered by Martin K 2
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http://www.stagepage.info/oneactplayscripts/london1004.html is where i found some real good ones
2006-06-25 12:47:55
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