10 Raging Lunatic Monologues
10 Raging Lunatic Monologues offers up some hostile, intense and some very crazy ass characters you can rage with at your next audition.
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Where to find the most emotionally intense acting monologues?
Monologue Blogger provides a nice range of emotionally intense monologues for actors to discover.
The Raging Lunatic Monologues we’ve shared here are characters with internal rage. Some express it outwardly, others inwardly, but the stuff that boils is always present.
Dark Place
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Jeffrey
- Length: 2-minute monologue
- Description: Jeffrey lost his mind but receives a visitation from a friend while cooped up in a mental asylum.
- Excerpt: “We are all mad, crazy, nuts, psycho. It’s true. Walk down the street and look into the eyes of the man or woman you walk past. It’s hidden. It’s hidden.” ~Jeffrey
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Coffee Table
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Melanie
- Length: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Melanie lives in a psycho ward talking to people that aren’t really there but what if they are?
- Excerpt: “My table came to life. I was just staring at it and it came to life. It started with the legs…the legs of the table. They moved first. It was quick and I had to blink really hard a few times to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me.” ~Melanie
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Killing You
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Killer
- Length: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: The killer and the victim play a life or death game of cat and mouse…who will be the victor?
- Excerpt: “You might be wondering why I haven’t killed you yet…I’m actually wondering that as well. Not so sure. Usually I just do it. Takes less than a second. Then it’s forgotten in the next.” ~Killer
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The Correct Source
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Dillard
- Length: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Dillard just wants the guy he knows who kills people to come work for him.
- Excerpt: “I know you specialize in death, so I approached you. I saw what you did to Becky years ago; I knew what you did and where you left her body.” ~Dillard
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In the Face of the Beast
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Father Lewis
- Length: 2-minute monologue
- Description: After years have passed, Rupert visits his Auntie and he isn’t what she had expected at all.
- Excerpt: I would be very mindful of taking long walks alone through the woods, at least, not until we locate and diminish this threat. For it is a threat, Willa. A threat so fierce, so evil, that no shotgun, no husband, and no faith can ever prevent. It exists and walks in and of itself.” ~Father Lewis
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Nightfall
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Betsy
- Length: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Betsy runs a criminal organization and isn’t sure if she should kill her nephew or not.
- Excerpt: “He’s been given every chance…such a burden that boy. Ha! Boy! He’s a full grown man that one, with the mind of a troubled teen…it’s no use, he’s getting in the way of business. Can’t have that.’”
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Dead Memory
- Genre: Drama
- Characters: Bruce
- Length: 1- minute monologue
- Description: Bruce surprise visits an old friend he no longer sees as a friend.
- Excerpt: “Not everybody gets to make it to the finish line unscathed. In those rare cases, when justice prevails, those dead memories get found out and all that remains is some concrete wall you get shot against.” ~Bruce
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Waiting in the Wings
- Genre: Drama
- Characters: Wendy
- Length: 1- minute monologue
- Description: Wendy tries to rationalize why she killed her boss at the club.
- Excerpt: “Maybe, I had it planned. I must have had it all worked out in my mind somehow, for all them times he put his chunky fingers on my body.” ~Wendy
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The Napoleon Club
- Genre: Drama
- Characters: J.B.Berkshire
- Length: 1- minute monologue
- Description: J.B. Berkshire isn’t a man you want to cross because if and when you do, there is always a lesson he is all too happy to give.
- Excerpt: “You could hate me or love me, but one thing you can’t do is ignore me…to ignore someone, that’s the worst kind of insult, don’t you think?” ~J.B.Berkshire
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Hush
- Genre: Drama
- Characters: Luciana
- Length: 1-2 minute monologue
- Description: Luciana wants to bribe a plastic surgeon to disfigure an actor.
- Excerpt: “You stand no chance against me. I am asking you nicely, for a favor. I am doing it in the most sincere manner. I am asking you until there is no space left for me to ask you anymore.” ~Luciana
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Using Emotionally Intense Monologues To Expand Your Range
MB’s Emotionally Intense Monologues are an important training tool to help you grow as an actor by some of the following ways:
- Using dialogue that leaps off the page.
- Practicing the art of emotional restraint.
- Pacing yourself with momentum and energy.
- Studying a vibrant character situation that stimulates you to action.
Looking for more Intense Monologues?
If you’d like to explore more dramatic, comedic, or audition-ready pieces, visit our Main Monologue Hub for a full collection organized by tone, age, and genre.
