Something thats unholy and evil. It wasnt long till they came for me. Ye captive women, ye who tend this home,Since ye are present to escort with meThese lustral rites, your counsel now I crave.How, while I pour these offrings on the tomb,Speak friendly words? (Beat.) A monologue from the play by Winsome Pinnock. endobj I survived the sexual abuse by my uncle when I was 11. Because mostly I feel rage. My impotence set in a year ago. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He who least regardsSuch brainsick fantasies lives most at ease. 1. AUDITION PIECES - FEMALE . A monologue from the screenplay by Woody Allen. They took Ruth while she was out buying food. Read the play here Folger|King Henry VIII In Plain & Simple English, Watch the movie The Tudors (2007)|The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971). The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! They dont need me. Can we start over? This ones on half an acre and uh, this one is older, but it has a really good view and the neighborhoods pretty. I imagine shes your favorite. Whenever I wanted something I could here that voice telling me to stop, to be careful, to live most of my life unlived. He made you believe that you needed to be without fault in order to be loved. How would I know? Today my eyes died. B1xbuI,glgX`qFNM ~D Pick a monologue that is age-appropriate. I know, I know. to which of the two oughtest thou to yield obedience? I mean, thats what its all about, right? 1 minute and 23 seconds later the plane crashed into a field. Most of my life I havent even been able to call you, and forget visiting. A monologue from the screenplay by the Wachowskis, I remember how the meaning of words began to change. . Go, go bragHow many ladies you have undone, like me.Fare you well sir; let me hear no more of you.I had a limb corrupted to an ulcer,But I have cut it off: and now Ill goWeeping to heaven on crutches. Now, by my life,Old fools are babes again; and must be usedWith cheques as flatteries,when they are seen abused.Remember what I tell you. I cant believe were actually going! There is no alternative to justice in this case. It was an abortion. Some called it the American Desert. I just sat there holding Shelbys hand while the sounds got softer and the beeps got farther apart until all was quiet. And eventually, all you can think about is how life has always been this way. It reminded me how genuinely romantic I was, how I had so much hope in things, and now its like, I dont believe in anything that relates to love. Drum couldnt take it. You know, like, leave me. I dont know what to do. CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUES WOMEN 1 CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUES WOMEN Moving by Lee Kalcheim DIANA I went to a Quaker school. I trusted her. hb```Jk cbM>0G5*00T%%=(9C::X:AYp3tziA op0,` Its everywhere. I was afraid that I wouldnt survive the next few minutes while they turned off the machines. . Did I tell this,Who would believe me? I lie in bed and stare at the canopy and imagine ways of killing my enemies. And it just started, like, this avalanche of sh*t, about maybe I deserve it. (Pause. LANE: Okay! It was a girl. It took everything. I shall die here. . THREE SISTERS by Anton Chekhov . You - glow - with some kind of - thing - I can't acquire that - this - thing - sort. Really? Just for the summer! My mom barely goes out. I remember it so well, that I would shed my blood rather than degrade my rank. The Best 27 One Minute Monologues For Females. The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2018 17 $&78$//< Anna Ziegler 'UDPDWLF Amber Cohen, late teens - early twenties Amber is addressing the audience, describing her UVW VH[XDO H[SHULHQFH ZKLFK ZLWK RU ZLWKRXW KHU knowing, contributed to shaping her attitude and ex-pectations around sex for years to come. And, uh, manipulated me. Many of the (pause) If wed had a house, Id never would have wanted to leave. It said: This is the New World and in this world you can be whoever the f*** you want. I try to find ways to make myself feel something more and more and more it doesnt make any difference. A few times a week, you know, they come in here and prod me. Comedic Monologues for Women I Ate the Divorce Papers by Gabriel Davis Age Range: 30+ A woman with a broken heart lashes out in an unusual way. I tell her that if maybe we had people around she would start to feel better. Understand, Sharona had to die in a fire in order for Undine to live. Drown in its rivers. I dont feel anything. Black kids dont go into the cafeteria and shoot up everybody or stalk teachers and shoot them. It makes tomorrow all right. Like, somehow this night took things away from me and I expressed them to you, and you took them with you! All of these monologues have been pulled from published, highly acclaimed works, so you should have no problem finding copies of the plays in local bookstores or in your local or school libraries. Are you lonely for your long lost family, the one you never really wanted, or do people want families before theyre formed and then freak out that they cant manage them once they get them? But she doesnt listen. It will. Im his only living child, so he wanted to make a good match for me. Sir, call to mindThat I have been your wife, in this obedience,Upward of twenty years, and have been blestWith many children by you: if, in the courseAnd process of this time, you can report,And prove it too, against mine honour aught,My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty,Against your sacred person, in Gods name,Turn me away; and let the foulst contemptShut door upon me, and so give me up. Hell no. The Long Farewell. You dont feel the cold at my age, specially not in the legs. What sensation do you get when I do that?Nothing! This collection of powerful and original monologues for African American men and women offer a refreshing alternative to recycled standards. Who I am is a 53-year-old woman from Memphis, Tennessee, named Anna Mae Harkness. The doctors. O yet, for Gods sake, go not to these wars!The time was, father, that you broke your word,When you were more endeared to it than now;When your own Percy, when my hearts dear Harry,Threw many a northward look to see his fatherBring up his powers; but he did long in vain.Who then persuaded you to stay at home?There were two honours lost, yours and your sons.For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!For his, it stuck upon him as the sunIn the grey vault of heaven, and by his lightDid all the chivalry of England moveTo do brave acts: he was indeed the glassWherein the noble youth did dress themselves:He had no legs that practised not his gait;And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,Became the accents of the valiant;For those that could speak low and tardilyWould turn their own perfection to abuse,To seem like him: so that in speech, in gait,In diet, in affections of delight,In military rules, humours of blood,He was the mark and glass, copy and book,That fashiond others. If you fail to beat the current, you will drown; if you get too close, you will be bitten. Michael, you are blind. They couldnt keep the game going any longer. I can take off any day this week and Ill pay for it out of my own pocket. let them alone:The marshal and the archbishop are strong:Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,To-day might I, hanging on Hotspurs neck,Have talkd of Monmouths grave. to scientific research in any way. Me with no education. <> I never lied to you, I am 23. Every single of my exs, theyre now married! Your horrors effaced. from my mother?My courage fails, now know I what to speak,Pouring libations on my fathers tomb.Or shall I pray, as holy wont enjoins,That to the senders of these chaplets, heRequital may accord, ay! But you know black kids dont really do that, do they? Ist not you?Ist not your high preferment? % Pitiless fate, whose severity separates my glory and my desires! You can hear it, cant you? The Long Goodbye, was that it? The Straw (dramatic) 2. Let me wear it a little longer, Mother! (Ellaria starts gagging) Im sorry, I cant understand you, that gag makes it impossible to understand what youre saying, it must be frustrating. You know how he is. But I didnt mind, no, I didnt mind until I overheard a group of my friends making crass unkind comments about my family. So if you really are here, and youre really not just stopping in to say youre leaving again, youre going to have to do better than this. I see with sorrow that love compels me to utter sighs for that [object] which [as a princess] I must disdain. This refusal of the child catalyzes her recollection of what happened to her own baby when she was a child soldier. %PDF-1.5 And then they all started to laugh. <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.32 841.92] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> . . I never heard a sound like that. That little voice. Tried to find words to describe it. I was born in 1931. Read the play here Folger|No Fear Shakespeare, Watch the movie 1995 (Ian McKellen)|1956 (Laurence Olivier). MY SIDE OF THINGS. It's impossible, right? About degrees of progress . It stirred sh*t up, you know? Sometimes Im less than human, I know this, but I cant control it. stream Time to let the healing begin. And the future, John Lennon probably put it best. Dont let them see your tears, he told me. This is the best I could come up with, okay? Dont you understand? I think cities have weakened us as a species. Female Monologues - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. If Id known you were going to make my dress as long as that Id rather have stayed thirteen. Ive worn a mask every day of my life. You know, I want to kill them! Rodrigo is dear to me; I strive to lose him, and I lose him with regret, and hence my secret anxiety derives its origin. Modern American Scenes for Student Actors - Oct 19 2020 100 Monologues - Jan 10 2020 A collection of one hundred monologues from New York's "New Dramatists." Contemporary American Monologues for Women . Bleed until its dark. So who am I? Im supposed to set goals and maybe take night classes that will expand my horizons. Mary, I said. And when I look back at it, you know, just, its like she lied to me. But youre right. THE MOONLIGHT ROOM 8. I survived losing my first love, Eve, because I was scared to be gay. ), I dont know if it was a girl dressed like a guy or a guy dressed like a girl dressed like a guy. My siblings left the kitchen. Remember? Nay, then,if these things are pleasing to the gods,when I have suffered my doom,I shall come to know my sin; but if the sinis with my judges, I could wish themno fuller measure of evil than they,on their part, mete wrongfully to me. STILL LIFE 9. telling me my dads gonna be all right. Is not that glimmer there afar That dying exhalation that pale star A tiny taper, which, with trembling blazeFlickering twixt struggling flames and dying rays,With ineffectual sparkMakes the dark dwelling place appear more dark?Yes, for its distant light,Reflected dimly, brings before my sightA dungeons awful gloom,Say rather of a living corse, a living tomb;And to increase my terror and surprise,Drest in the skins of beasts a man there lies:A piteous sight,Chained, and his sole companion this poor light.Since then we cannot fly,Let us attentive to his words draw nigh,Whatever they may be. A time, methinks, too shortTo make a world-without-end bargain in.No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this:If for my love, as there is no such cause,You will do aught, this shall you do for me:Your oath I will not trust; but go with speedTo some forlorn and naked hermitage,Remote from all the pleasures of the world;There stay until the twelve celestial signsHave brought about the annual reckoning.If this austere insociable lifeChange not your offer made in heat of blood;If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weedsNip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,But that it bear this trial and last love;Then, at the expiration of the year,Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,And, by this virgin palm now kissing thineI will be thine; and till that instant shutMy woeful self up in a mourning house,Raining the tears of lamentationFor the remembrance of my fathers death.If this thou do deny, let our hands part,Neither entitled in the others heart. A monologue from the screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky. But it also gave her anxiety because it meant that in the good times, there would be bad times. Poor princess! You cant do that. It wasnt a miscarriage. To whom should I complain? . And what I really dont understand is how come everybody else isnt screaming with boredom too. this affliction of love, and has never let go of me since, but kept on growing. I thought about having Ser Gregor crush your skull the way he did Oberyns. Did not the judge style itA house of penitent whores? I dont know. She has learned that her friend, Martina, a gang member, is HIV+. She won't be surprised. This penitential robe will keep. You chose to murder my daughter. Just let me help you, Gavin. Thinking about my whole life, how . Just like our marriage is an abortion. And when I got married, I threw myself into becoming a Keating, and it was all to create a version of myself that the world would accept. Most of the time, most days, I feel ..nothing. I might assuredly answer to thee. I have this thing about not seeing people in the flesh. Where criminality is confused with mental health? Jessicas husband was murdered when the couple stopped for gasoline in a black neighborhood. Why should I even make the bed, or wash the dishes? From Bull by Mike Bartlett: When she hears you're out of work, her low estimation of you will drop even further. 1[lWc+4yF85vs%Fuu%?|b:Q }^MgjKU{WPPw {' 8op${0uC-0O7Dg| 18 &Xayra=X(`T`t,, 8I8$RIJ8s hVQSCz `T06 n0qLOT]vxsikEQV[| So you find yourself trying to remember the things that made you happy. Home is a long way away for all of us. I had a therapist once who said that these states will wax and wane. (Pause. . Female Monologues . 6r 1 0 obj All I know is that my adults, the ones assigned to me, they dont seem to want me around, or I can put it differently, they dont want to be around me. Then continues.) And I am at your mercy.. A monologue from the screenplay by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola. I wake up and I think.again? You may choose up to 2 monologues to self-tape from the list of top 25 monologues included in this document. 2. I am not yet divorced, Im being investigated by the FBI, Im carrying the child of another man and Im not really a junkie. Suggested Classical Monologues - June 2018 Page 2 of 16 2. Your bones will turn to sand. Look, perjured man, on herWhom thou and thy distracted lust have wronged.Thy sensual rage of blood hath made my youthA scorn to men and angels, and shall IBe now a foil to thy unsated change?Thou knowst, false wanton, when my modest fameStood free from stain or scandal, all the charmsOf Hell or sorcery could not prevailAgainst the honour of my chaster bosom.Thine eyes did plead in tears, they tongue in oathsSuch and so many, that a heart of steelWould have been wrought to pity, as was mine:And shall the conquest of my lawful bed,My husbands death urged on by his disgrace,My loss of womanhood, be ill rewardedWith hatred and contempt? 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