12 Monologues from Published Plays

12 Monologues from Published Plays (drama/comedy) that you can use for classroom study, auditions, competitions, and college castings.

This list features some of Monologue Blogger’s popular monologues from published plays.

12 Monologues from Published Plays

No Comparison

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Cordelia
• 1-2 Minute Monologue
• Cordelia and Sophia encounter a pivotal moment within their friendship.  As this one act play unfolds we see how true of a relationship these two young women really have.

Jasper The Whale

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Charlie
• 2 Minute Monologue
• This is a one-act play about Charlie, a man at the end of his rope, who undergoes a final series of life memories, while talking to his best friend in the whole wide world, an ironclad statue of a whale.

Rupert’s Reverie

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Rupert
• 2 Minute Monologue
• Rupert reveals his truest self to his Aunt about who he is and how he thinks about life and himself.

Whatever Happened to Luella Beans?

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rebecca
• 2 Minute Monologue
• After years of never discussing it, Rebecca tells her adopted daughter the horrific reality of what happened to her biological mother.

Toast of Broadway

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Crystal
• 1 Minute Monologue
• This is a one-act play about Charlie and Tula, two creative dreamers with nothing in the world but their hopes in one another.

Contents Flammable

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Nora
• 2 Minute Monologue
• A mother opens up to her group about how she has been trying to cope with the accident her daughter has had.

Into the Cold Night Air With You

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Linda
• 1 Minute Monologue
• Linda spies on her husband only to discover that he has been cheating on her with her best friend.

Die Down

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Shiela
• 1 Minute Monologue
• Sheila and her father are not talking, but since she is expected to get married there may be a chance to rebuild their relationship.

Snowdrift

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Trudy
• 1 Minute Monologue
• Trudy shares with her boyfriend the nature of her relationship with her father.

The Bear

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tiffany
• 1 Minute Monologue
• Tiffany talks with her teacher to try and gain clarity on the stresses she has in her creative work.

Burden of Being Taken

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Baker
• 1 Minute Monologue
• Baker comes home from the war and the repercussions of it reveal its impact on one small family in this one-act play.

The Ever-Turning Wheel

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Ben
• 1 Minute Monologue
• Ben explains to his brother why he isn’t allowed to ride the Ferris wheel anymore.