Can anyone suggest a good monologue?

Question

I am auditioning for a local community theater production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and I need to have a 1-2 minute monologue. We can have either have a comic or serious monologue. I just read a summary of the play and from what I can tell it is serious with some comedic moments. I also called my local library and I will be picking up a copy of the play later today. Does anyone have any suggestion? Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Since you look female, I would suggest the final speech of Emily Webb in Our Town, where she goes back to the Earth for the last time. It is compelling, allows the player to run a range of emotions, and is tragic.
Now, break a leg.

Answer 2

There are some good ones in Who's Afraid... both for Martha and for her female guest, one where the guest is drunk out of her mind.

Lady Macbeth's first soliloquy would have to be edited, but it would give you more than enough to work with.

In A Glass Menagerie, there is one in which Amanda goes on and on talking to her daughter's first "gentleman caller". It's annoying, semi-funny and pathetic all at the same time.

In Of Mice and Men, Curley's wife has a speech in which she tries to explain to Lenny why she's leaving Curley. She winds up getting killed in this scene.

If you can do a cockney accent, try one of Eliza Doolittle's speeches from either Pygmalion or My Fair Lady.

Break a leg.