I need to find a monologue for an audition? Help?

Question

anything.

Answer 1

I'd just like to start by saying that you're getting a lot of BAD advice in response to your question.

As a longtime actor and director, I can tell you that there are two things that people conducting auditions do NOT want to see:

1) Excerpts from novels; and/or
2) Things you wrote yourself.

For heaven's sake, you're auditioning for a theatrical production. They don't want to know if you can READ, and they don't want to know if you can WRITE. They want to know if you can ACT, and the way to demonstrate that is to come in with a well-selected and well-prepared piece from a PUBLISHED PLAY. Any actor who doesn't "get" that the playwright's voice is entirely different from the novelist's "voice" (or, for that matter, the screenwriter's "voice") is not going far.

But, back to your problem. I have no specific pieces to recommend. But, I can tell you this: whatever happens in this upcoming audition, you should take this as the wake-up call for the NEXT one. You should start READING PLAYS. Lots of them. One a week, minimum. New plays, old plays, light plays, dramatic plays, American plays, British plays, foreign plays in translation. As an actor, you need to become a student of dramatic literature, and that process starts right now.

As you're reading, you're going to come across dozens...hundreds of monologues. When you see one that strikes your fancy, you make a note, make a copy, and start working on it.

Any actor who's serious about the game should ALWAYS have no fewer than four monologues committed to memory and ready to perform at a moment's notice: contemporary dramatic, contemporary comedic, classical dramatic, classical comedic. If you have the "Basic 4" ready to go, you'll never be unprepared when an audition opportunity comes around.

Answer 2

I facilitates to take a monologue from a play, one that i exploit fairly usually if from Anne Frank, she is chatting with Peter the finished time interior the monologue, the different is from the Crucible and Abigail is chatting with John. Granted I even have had the two those components, yet while the monologue is variety a play then all you'll be able to desire to do is faux there is yet another peroson on point with you and have interaction as though they have been there. besides the incontrovertible fact that there are some monologues that arent' variety plahy that is preformed to the objective audience as an entire yet do no longer pay any specific interest to the human beings you're auditioning you, faux you have an entire abode and act for each individual who could be there.

Answer 3

It does really depend on what you're auditioning for, but there is a monologue in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, in the first act, first scene. It's delivered by Aegean and sums up the back-story for the play. It's 80 lines, the longest that William ever wrote. My son had to deliver it a few years ago when he played the part. I think, no matter what you're auditioning for, if you can memorize that and deliver it well, then you should get any part.

Others might think you should stick to the genre of the play that you're auditioning for. I also think that you should find something that you can sort of relate to. It makes it more believable for the audience.

I think the play Equis (sp?) also has some good shorter mono's.

Break a leg!

Answer 4

you can go to google and type in monologues and they will give you tons of options. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom, they give you different types of monologue choices.
Good luck!

Answer 5

anything huh? Well why not make up your own?

Soundz about right. Express a problem or a speech u gave to ur girl friend (or something simliar).

Itz all the same thing if u had been a "talk-active" person ur life.

{they wont know}

Answer 6

Look, you told me you didn't freakin care so what the hell am I supposed to do? What did you think I was going to do? I cared for you, you........ you freakin crack head. I ought to.......... s**t fire. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with you. My freakin head is exploding. What? Just shut up. Just shut the f&%k up dammit. I've gotta have a drink! Do ya think you can do that for me? Get me a freakin drink. S**t. I can't believe I thought you might ..................... (long pause)......... Leave. Get outta here now.

Answer 7

From "Wuthering Heights".

Heathcliff:

"It began oddly. You know I was wild after she died; and eternally, from dawn to dawn, praying her to return to me her spirit! I have a strong faith in ghosts: I have a conviction that they can, and do, exist among us! The day she was buried, there came a fall of snow. In the evening I went to the churchyard. It blew bleak as winter -- all round was solitary. I didn't fear that her fool of a husband would wander up the glen so late; and no one else had business to bring them there. Being alone, and conscious two yards of loose earth was the sole barrier between us, I said to myself -- "I'll have her in my arms again! If she be cold, I'll think it is this north wind that chills ME; and if she be motionless, it is sleep." I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might -- it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down. "If I can only get this off," I muttered, "I wish they may shovel in the earth over us both!" and I wrenched at it more desperately still. There was another sigh, close at my ear. I appeared to feel the warm breath of it displacing the sleet-laden wind. I knew no living thing in flesh and blood was by; but, as certainly as you perceive the approach to some substantial body in the dark, though it cannot be discerned, so certainly I felt that Cathy was there: not under me, but on the earth. A sudden sense of relief flowed from my heart through every limb. I relinquished my labour of agony, and turned consoled at once: unspeakably consoled. Her presence was with me: it remained while I re-filled the grave, and led me home. You may laugh, if you will; but I was sure I should see her there. I was sure she was with me, and I could not help talking to her. Having reached the Heights, I rushed eagerly to the door. It was fastened; and, I remember, that accursed Earnshaw and my wife opposed my entrance. I remember stopping to kick the breath out of him, and then hurrying up-stairs, to my room and hers. I looked round impatiently -- I felt her by me -- I could ALMOST see her, and yet I COULD NOT! I ought to have sweat blood then, from the anguish of my yearning -- from the fervour of my supplications to have but one glimpse! I had not one. She showed herself, as she often was in life, a devil to me! And, since then, sometimes more and sometimes less, I've been the sport of that intolerable torture! Infernal! keeping my nerves at such a stretch that, if they had not resembled catgut, they would long ago have relaxed to the feebleness of Linton's. When I sat in the house with Hareton, it seemed that on going out I should meet her; when I walked on the moors I should meet her coming in. When I went from home I hastened to return; she MUST be somewhere at the Heights, I was certain! And when I slept in her chamber -- I was beaten out of that. I couldn't lie there; for the moment I closed my eyes, she was either outside the window, or sliding back the panels, or entering the room, or even resting her darling head on the same pillow as she did when a child; and I must open my lids to see. And so I opened and closed them a hundred times a night -- to be always disappointed! It racked me! I've often groaned aloud, till that old rascal Joseph no doubt believed that my conscience was playing the fiend inside of me. Now, since I've seen her, I'm pacified -- a little. It was a strange way of killing: not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope through eighteen years!"

Answer 8

Yeah, you should do Shakespeare. He has such a good selection for comedy, romantic or dramatic.

Answer 9

An audition for what?..I mean what part and all... You just have to be more specific... :)

Answer 10

You could try something from shakespeare, since they're very famous.