How do you pick out a great monologue?

Question

How do you pick out a great monologue? for auditions? and what id the best way to remember them?

Answer 1

First your read about a thousand plays, then you honestly evaluate your ability and type, then you try to match your type with some of the roles you have read. Or you have a mentor to help you do it. Read my profile.

Answer 2

I would say that it isn't really hard to pick out a great monologue. You usually just know. It's best to find something that talks to what you're passonate about. Something that moves you when you read it. B/c chances are if you are moved by just reading it, it'll be easier for you to convey that character and the emotions behind them.
It order to actually find them, you just have to read and read and read.
I always end up crying if someone dies. Whether I know them or not. For example I just finished reading Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. I won't spoil the ending in case you want to read it. But someone dies and I seriously sat there bawling, not crying, but bawling for the two hours it took me to read the ending. Even though I've never had anyone really close to me die, I was so moved by the words and the story behind it, I felt like it was really happening. That sort of passion put towards the right monologue would be dynamite.
But it doesn't have to be what makes you cry. It could be any emotion. It just has to move you. Whether it makes you uncontrollably mad, scared, ashamed, ect. It just has to evoke such raw emotion that you lose yourself in it.
Once you have something that moves you, I think it inspires you to work your hardest at it, in order to make it real. I find it easier then to create a character and apply it.
The best way to remember them? If you mean know what they were after you find them, write it down or scan it. If you mean memorizing, remember that every scene conversation has a reason. Every line said was provoked by either a thought or what was said before it. Then it just a matter of memorizing the individual lines and applying them to the outline of thoughts and triggers. It makes it easy to remember the sequence of lines. As far as memorizing the individual lines, say it aloud several times. Then try it without looking, then repeat, until you get it right without looking at all. Then just keep saying it.

Hope this helps. Best of luck in your search.

Answer 3

Go through books in the library, or ask Speech Club friends.
Memorize by paragraphs. Make up a "main" word for each paragraph, learn each paragraph, & recite them one "main" word after the other.