11 Contemporary Play Monologues with Young Male Characters

11 Contemporary Plays Monologues with Young Male Characters helps thespians find monologues from theatre play scripts for auditions.

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Monologue Blogger specializes in creating plays with monologues for actors.  You will find drama, comedy and serio-comedy monologue scripts from published play works on our site.

We are pleased to share with you a compilation of some of our monologues that all come from plays.

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PLEASE FORGIVE ME
Jesse comes from a rough home, which causes him to erupt over the slightest things.  One such eruption took place with his girlfriend, who now is on the verge of breaking up with Jesse.

DUST IN OUR EYES
Dean has a lengthy monologue about encouraging his best friend Paula in order to show her that she has within her the opportunity to reach her fullest potential.

CHECKING IN
This is a father/son story wherein the son (Rob) hasn’t seen his father since he was abandoned as a baby.  After Rob’s mother passes away, he keeps his promise to her and locates his father, but during their first meeting, Rob expresses everything he’s kept in for so long.

TREAT ME DIFFERENT
This is a short yet emotionally powerful monologue about a young man named Marshall who struggles with his identity and turns to his father for help as a last resort.

MORE WAYS THAN ONE
Porterfield is considered the troublemaker by all his fellow classmates.  This has given him a bad reputation that he feels obligated to live up to, but deep down he wishes he didn’t have such a reputation.  His principle sees passed his troublemaking ways and offers him a chance to show he’s capable of more.

DARK SIDE OF MY MOON
Jobe goes hardcore with his basketball.  It’s his life’s passion and when it comes to competition he will stop at nothing to win.

WASTE OF TIME
Byron is a talented young man who has built his own thriving BMX business.  He wants to drop out of school but his parents won’t let him.

MIND TRICK
This teenager has a difficult time fitting in at school but wishes they can find even one friend to get along with.

PIPER’S COMING HOME
A small network of teen misfits band together in an abandoned warehouse.  Jerome tries to convince Benny that he should let Piper take his bedroom, but Benny doesn’t want to give it to her.

BENNY’S GOT A GUN
Jerome talks to Piper about how he isn’t sure true love exists between people.

OTHER SIDE OF THE CHASM
Chad has always been an outsider and only has a select group of friends.  However, he does often think about what it would be like to be one of the popular kids at school

PEANUTS ON THE DOLLAR
Chester is willing to risk it all in order to get money so that his mother can have a lifesaving operation.

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