can someone give me a monologue?

Question

the monologue has to be from a published play. i want it to really make a statement lik show that i can kinda act. i would like it if the monologue would give me some sort of a challenge.

Answer 1

if you want a challenge then try Antigone of Sophocles

Answer 2

This is a cutting I did from the play Beloved Friend. The character is Kristen and she is talking to her boyfriend about the draft because she just wrote an article in the school paper about how the draft was unfair and he didn't agree with her. When I finally got this right, it was one of the ost powerful monologues I had ever done. I also chose to sit in a chair while I did it, just for a heads up.

I just think it’s easy for people like you and me to ignore the draft because we’re not the ones in the army. We’re sitting here safe in school. We all should be in the army! Why should I be excused just because I’m a woman? All of us or none of us. Don’t you see? But they try to divide us up, play us off against one another, by saying some of us are more valuable than others. They look at you and say, “Now, you’re smart. You stay right here in school.” And they look at me and say, “Oh, now, you’re scared. You stay home in the kitchen.” And they look at some big dumb kid like Willy Martindale, who can’t do anything but play hockey, and they say, “Now he’s just perfect. Let’s ship him over there and blow him up!” Gary, that’s just it. It couldn’t have been you or me. It had to be Willy. But we ought to make it fair. Why can’t we make it fair?

Also the play Summertree, if you can find it, has a really awesome moologue about a mother losing her son. In it she is finally opening up to her friend about her son's death at war. It starts off....
"You know, when it comes, you think that it is going to be a terrible surprise. That you'll tear it up or wad it into a little ball. That you'll scream or go insane, or at least cry, but you don't. You know it's happened before the telegram has even arrived..."
Then it ends with
"...I never cried until that day n the grass and I don't know if I was crying for Ginger or for my son."
Those are two of the greatest monologues I have found for women, but you can choose for yourself. Good luck and have fun!

Answer 3

Don't know if you can find this where you are, but "See Bob Run" by Daniel MacIvor is a female solo piece with lots of meat. Wendy Wasserstein has also written a lot of really good female parts. Also try "Cloud Nine" by Caryl Churchill.

Answer 4

Wednesday Addams: Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims. And especially do not trust Sarah Miller. For all these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground

Answer 5

Try one from McBeth. The one where Lady McBeth is sleepwalking. "Out Danm spot, out i say...1, 2, then it is time to do it....Something like that. Its very challenging from how i saw my high school drama teacher do it. You should try it.

Answer 6

find your own monologue. Either one can act, or, one cannot, there is no "kinda," in acting.

Answer 7

Use that one that goes, " ..If you cut us do we not bleed." I don't know who wrote it or anything, but if you type those words into the search bar I bet it would come up.