What is a good/best monologue that is 8mins longs?

Question

It must be a guy part.
Why you say, i need to find a monologue for school and i need to present it. I want anything because i am very skilled in acting that i can do any part.

:-)

please give out a website if there is one!

thanks

Answer 1

You should do something from "This is Our Youth". Dennis has some AMAZING monologues in Act Two. You can easily combine a few to make one long one...like I did for you right HERE! I'm assuming you're in high school, so I did a little editing to make it high school-appropriate. If you can use an unedited version, just let me know and I'll fix it for you.

DENNIS: 21 years old, Jewish, lives in NYC, uses and deals drugs, but is from a rich family. He has just come from finding out about the death of an aquaintance after a night of drugs and girls. He is talking to his friend Warren.

Listen to me, Warren. Something terrible has happened. It's Stuey. Stuart! The Fat Man. Stuart Grossbart. I don't know, man. I guess he did too many speedballs. He was with that Dutch chick all night and they went to sleep and when she woke up this morning she couldn't wake him up, so she turned him over and there was blood coming out of his nose and eyes and he was dead. I mean I just SAW the guy last NIGHT. I am so freaked out. I can't even believe it. 'Cause when I got to Donald Saulk's house he was on the phone with Yoffie. So I got on the phone and Yoffie told me he went over to Stuey's this morning and there were all these cops there, and that girl was sitting there freaked out of her mind crying and screaming and like smoking cigarettes and talking half in English and half in Dutch, and Yoffie told the cops he was Stuey's friend and they told him what happened.

And the GIRL was OK. So I guess he just overdid it. But I am so freaked out. I mean the guy is DEAD. Do you know what that MEANS? It's like, he's not gonna be AROUND anymore, like at ALL. And it's just got me really scared. I mean we are such idiots to be doing this stuff, man. I am totally stopping. I know he was a big fat slob who totally overdid everything and all he ever ate was like sirloin drenched in butter and sour cream, but the guy was like twenty-three years old and now he's just GONE. You know? Like he is no MORE. I don't know, man. I guess there's only a certain amount of time you can keep doing this stuff before bad stuff starts to happen to you. I mean I am really scared.

I think I went too far with my girlfriend before. But I can't even deal with it right now. I'm too freaked out. I just can't believe this, man, it's like so completely bizarre. And it's not like I even liked the guy that much, you know? I just KNEW him. You know? But if we had been doing those speedballs last night we could both be DEAD now. Do you understand how CLOSE that is? I mean...it's DEATH. DEATH. It's so incredibly heavy, it's like so much heavier than like ninety-five percent of the stuff you deal with in the average day that constitutes your supposed life, and it's like so totally off to the SIDE it's like completely ridiculous.

I mean that was IT. That was his LIFE. Period. The Life of Stuart. A fat Jew from Long Island with a grotesque accent who sold drugs and ate steak and did nothing of note like whatsoever. I don't know, man. I'm like, high on fear. I feel totally high on fear. I'm like - I don't even know what to DO with myself. I wanna like go to COOKING school in FLORENCE, or like go into SHOW business. I could so totally be a completely great chef it's like ridiculous. Or like an actor or like a director. I should totally direct movies, man, I'd be a genius at it. Like if you take the average person with the average sensibility or sense of humor or they way they look at the world and what thoughts they have or what they think, and you compare it to the way I look at stuff and the stuff I come up with to SAY, or just the SLANT I put on stuff, there's just like no comparison at all. I could totally make movies, man, I would be like one of the greatest movie makers of all time.

Plus I am like so much better at sports than anyone I know except Wally and those big black basketball players, man, but I totally played with those guys and completely earned their respet, and Wally was like, "Denny, man, you are the only white friend I have who I can take uptown and hang out with my friends and not be EMBARRASSED." Because I just go up there and hang out with them and like get them so much more stoned than they've ever been in their LIFE and like am completely not intimidated by them at ALL. You know?

I'm high on fear, man. I am completely stoned out of my mind on fear. And like you guys think I'm like totally confident and on top of it, but it's not true at all. My mother is so harsh and wildly extreme that I just got trained to snap back twice as hard the minute anybody starts to mess with me. That's how I fight with Valerie. Like the minute we get into an arguement whatever she says to me I just DOUBLE it and totally get in her face until she backs down or like has to like, leave the ROOM. And it completely works too, because I don't have to take any of the crap I see all my male friends taking from their girlfriends, or like the crap my father takes from my mother. I mean all he does is lord it over everybody, man, over all my brothers and sisters and like all his assisstants and his dealers and agents and like all these celebrities who buy his art, because he totally knows that he's like a complete living genius and so he's like, "Why should I spend two minutes talking to anybody I don't WANT to?"

Except now he's like toturing everbody constantly because he basically never doesn't have to pee, and my mother is freaking out because she's working fourteen hours a day because they cut the money out of all her programs and she's totally predicting major inner city catastrophe in years to come, and she completely has him in a vice. She's like, "Eddie, you're an idiot. Eddie, nobody cares if you have to see: you always have to pee, so shut up." She just TRAMPLES him, man. She's like, "No matter what you do it doesn't matter, because all you do is sell a bunch of paintings to like one percent of the population and I'm out there every day like, saving children's LIVES and trying to help real people who are being destroyed by Ronald Regan - so whatever you do and however famous you are it's just a total tissue of conceit, because it's got nothing to do with anybody but rich people." She just makes total emasculated mincemeat out of him and he can't do anything to fight back except meet some twenty-three-year-old.

You can totally see why some people are religious, man. I mean how much better would it be to think you're gonna be SOMEWHERE, you know? Instead of absolutely nowhere. Like GONE, forever. This is so scary. I am so scared right now. I gotta call my girlfriend. I am so keyed up. I can't shut up. I wish Valerie was here. Maybe I should call that girl Natalie. She really likes me, man. She told my sister I had beautiful eyes. I do have totally amazing eyes. They're a completely amazing, unique shape. Like most people with my kind of eyes aren't shaped like this at all. My eyes are totally intense and direct. Like if I look people in the eye, like nine out of ten people can't even hold my GAZE. I'm so freaked out. I wonder if anybody told his family. I wonder if they'll have a funeral. That's gonna be one big casket. I wonder if anybody'll show up.

Well, all I know is that if I had a funeral, there wouldn't be room to SIT. Someday I'm gonna make a movie about all of us, man. Like if you made that guy Donald Saulk a character in a movie, with all that stuff in his apartment, how heavy would that be? And most people would like find some bad actor to like do some caricature imitation of this guy and like totally miss all the intenste subtleties and qualities of his personality, and it if was me I would just go in there and use the real GUY, and it would be so much heavier, and so much funnier. Don't you think?

Answer 2

I have found that I pull the best monologues from The Raisin In The Sun, but I'm female. Want classical? Go Antigone. Creon has some very powerful monologues that are ready made. Need contemporary tragic? All My Sons. Plus you'll get points for it being about a current issue ... war and the effect on the american family as a societal focus.

Answer 3

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What is a good/best monologue that is 8mins longs?
It must be a guy part.
Why you say, i need to find a monologue for school and i need to present it. I want anything because i am very skilled in acting that i can do any part.

:-)

please give out a website if there is one!

thanks

Answer 4

I don't know why on earth anyone would ever need to perform an 8-minute monologue, but, if you really need one...

Check out Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story." Right about in the middle of it (it's a long one-act play), Jerry has a huge monologue. You can't miss it: it's "The Story of Jerry and The Dog." It's pretty amazing.

Answer 5

This Is Our Youth Monologue

Answer 6

There is a wonderful one-man play called 'Travellin' Show' by Jane Martin. It's a short one-act play and runs just around ten minutes.

from the Samuel French catalog:

Travellin' Show
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Drama

Jane Martin

1 m. (could be f.)

Bare stage.

Cairo, Tennessee was a quiet, safe town until Leda Phoenix arrived to put on her outdoor show in her school bus with a bird in flames painted on one side and a woman making love to a swan on the other. Cairo ain't been the same since. In What Mama Don't Know,

Good luck with whatever you choose!

Answer 7

The play "Kennedy's Children" is nothing but monologues for men and women. They are in a restaurant alone and talking aloud to the audience as if they are thinking aloud. Zoo Story also has a great scene with the dog (as mentioned above).

Answer 8

Have you seen Jaws? There's one part where Quint starts going off about catching the shark. It's pretty good. May not be exactly 8 minutes, but if you give the performance your best(use an old chalkboard to do the scratching part), the teacher may let it slide.

I've seen it done. Very amusing.

If not, anything Shakespeare will work. You could even play two parts.

Answer 9

Glenn Beck is a great source for monologues... he does them all day long.

Answer 10

I'm pretty sure u could do juliet's monologue during the balcony scene in Romeo & Juliet. How's that sound?

Answer 11

i am not sure of specifics but i do know a website that has really helped me...
http://www.whysanity.net.html
click on movie monologues
then on left side in yellow writing click on a-b

GOOD LUCK!