Can anyone help me find a good dramatic monologue?

Question

Im a teenage girl and i need a dramatic monologue to audition for my high school play, "working"

Im a young teenage girl and i need a dramatic monologue to try out for my highschool play "working" i need somthing from a good play or possibly a movie.

I prefer a monologue from a BROADWAY PLAY

Answer 1

Well, this is a little different. It's from a Jerry Seinfeld segment on "Male Unbonding." I think you could have fun with it. You just have to change a word or two to make it come from you! You can also go to Ellen DeGeneres web site ( http://ellen.warnerbros.com/galleries/videos/ ) and view her monologues! Just make sure when you deliver the dialogue you make it your own through diction, phrasing and gesture. Now...go break a leg!

"...it's true, men hear a drill, it's like a dog whistle. Just.. you know, they go running up to that living room curtain, "Honey, I think Jim's working on something over there." So they run over to the guy. Now they don't actually help the guy. No, they just want to hang around the area where work is being done. That's what men want to do. We want to watch the guy, we want to talk to him, we want to ask him dumb questions. You know, "What are you using, the Philips head?" You know, we feel involved. That's why when they have construction sites, they have to have those wood panel fences around it, that's just to keep the men out. They cut those little holes for us so we can see what the hell is going on. But if they don't cut those holes - we are climbing those fences. Right over there. "What are you using the steel girders down there? Yeah, that'll hold.""

If you want to be a little more dramatic:

WIFE TO A FAMOUS MAN

A monologue from the play by Gregorio Martinez Sierra, reprinted from The Plays of G. Martinez Sierra. G. Martinez Sierra. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1922.

MARIANA: "I want you to stop talking. You always lie like a newspaper--it doesn't matter what sort of tale you tell, no one's going to believe you. But ... just you look out. Your luck's in for the minute, isn't it ... and you think you're such a fellow just because a few pesetas have fallen on you out of the sky. Make the most of them while they last. I'm used to earning what I need for myself and my children. It's little enough and it's hard to come by ... but it makes me a queen in this kingdom anyhow. My kingdom's my home. And don't forget this. There's never been any man let come in it but you ... I love you a long sight more than you deserve to be loved. But let's have this clear ... there aren't going to be any women in the case but me either. And if you're not agreeable to that ... well, there's lots of room in the world for us both, and it's easy to take the train as to buzz through the air. Off you go then ... and we'll meet again on Judgment Day."

Answer 2

It's best to find a piece on your own..one that you connect with. Barring that, we did a two person play by Marsha Norman called 'night Mother about a woman contemplating suicide while living with her mother. The following is a monologue from that:
‘night Mother – Jessie Act 1 Scene 1
I am what became of your child. I found an old baby picture of me. And it was somebody else, not me. It was somebody pink and fat who never heard of sick or lonely, somebody who cried and got fed, and reached up and got held and kicked but didn't hurt anybody, and slept whenever she wanted to, just by closing her eyes. Somebody who mainly just laid there and laughed at the colors waving around over her head and chewed on a polka-dot whale and woke up knowing some new trick nearly every day, and rolled over and drooled on the sheet and felt your hand pulling my quilt back up over me. That's who I started out and this is who is left. (There is no self-pity here) That's what this is about. It's somebody I lost, all right, it's my own self. Who I never was. Or who I tried to be and never got there. Somebody I waited for who never came. And never will. So, see, it doesn't much matter what else happens in the world or in this house, even. I'm what was worth waiting for and I didn't make it. Me... who might have made a difference to me... I'm not going to show up, so there's no reason to stay, except to keep you company, and that's... not reason enough because I'm not... very good company. (Pause) Am I.

Answer 3

The easiest way is check Shakespear. Romeo and Juliet may seem cliche' but King Lear has some good soliloquy's. MacBeth has some great ones too, but they too may see cliche'.

If you don't want strictly female parts, try Eugene O'Neill's (sp???) work or some of the Broadway plays.

Answer 4

Take an excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank...there are
some powerful things in there that will show your range
as an actress. She shows a lot of optimism despite
overwhelming difficulties....like many teenagers, and
writes about it beautifully.

Answer 5

So, i guess youre wondering how i got to work? Well, basically, there was this little dot, right, and the dot went bang... and the bang expanded... energy formed into matter. Matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, the fish to fowl... the fowl to froggy, the froggy to mammal, the mammal to monkey, the monkey to man. Amo, amas, amat. Quid pro quo. Memento mori. Ad infinitum. Sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till doomsday. And here I am.