girl monologues...?

Question

i'm 16 and i need 2 contrasting monologues for school. they need to be 1-2 minutes in length. i'm thinking of something from crimes of the heart but i'm not sure.

Answer 1

Why restrict it to a girl? Just because you are female doesn't mean you have to recite a girl unless the instructing is making it gender specific. I would try Shakespeare; a bit old fashioned but he wrote some of the best monologues. Othello I think has some good ones.

Answer 2

Try one of the classics, Electra perhaps, I used this monologue before with success,

ELECTRA:

If it appears to you that I am constantly mourning
and lamenting, then I am ashamed.
I ask that you forgive me. Does not my background
and being my father’s daughter urge me to bear witness to all that has happened in this house.
From day to day, from morn to night
this endless increase of wrongs in one ceaseless sorrow.
The first cause is my mother. My mother hates me.
Here in this house I must live with my father’s
murderers
I am subject to their rule, beholden
to them for each and everything I do.
Can you imagine passing the days watching Aegisthus
sitting on my father’s throne, seeing him
in my fathers robes, witnessing him pour libations
on the very spot where he killed my father.
Espying the worst outrage of all, this murderer of my
father,
in my father’s bed with her, with my mother.
As his mistress, brazenly she lives with this
foul and contaminated criminal, fearing no fury.
Far from it, she laughs in the face of what she has done.
She marks that day, the day of my father’s
treacherous murder, celebrating it with song and
sacrifice

The back story can be found if you just google Electra, Sophocles or http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/electra/

Next you need a contemporary monologue, perhaps a comic one.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Topless-Miles-Tredinnick/dp/1905237758
is a good one, funny if you get it right and it should contrast with the more tragic, classical one.

You may also find something here,
http://www.monologuearchive.com/comic_women.html

try local library's as well.

Good luck searching and break a leg!

Answer 3

Stella and Blanch from streetcar named desire.