21 Family Drama Monologues

Explore 21 powerful family drama monologues—ideal for auditions and acting class. Themes of love, parenting, and loyalty included.

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Where can I find published plays about family drama?

Monologue Blogger has hundreds of play scripts about family drama. You can check out our collection shared here, but we invite you to also review a section called Family Monologues – where you will find plays on family.

Land of the Forgotten

• Genre: Drama
• Character: George
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: George is a homeless man who has been estranged by his daughter and strikes up a conversation with a woman that reminds him of her.
• Monologue Snippet: “The problem is figuring out how to undo them and sooner or later you realize the damage is done, like a tornado smashing up a house, most of the pieces remain but things have turned into something else.” ~George
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Cracks in Stone

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bethany
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: This is an emotionally strong monologue for an actor looking to explore various levels of monologue intensity and delivery.
• Monologue Snippet: “Are you mad? Have you no sense of decency, to expel such impure thoughts, August?” ~Bethany
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As If She Were Medusa

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Delilah
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Delilah fears her sister’s temper tantrums and unstable emotions.
• Monologue Snippet: “I am no sister of hers, no, especially on days when I peer into her eyes and all I see is a deep abyss of hatred. ” ~Delilah
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Checking In

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rob
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Rob finds his real father not to make amends but to lash out at him for all the years he’s been ignored.
• Monologue Snippet: “Thank you for showing me how NOT to be in my life. Thank you for giving me the example I needed to make an honest living, to at least treat people with a bit of dignity, and knowing how to be aware of my own integrity.” ~Rob
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All That Matters Most

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Clyde
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Clyde tries to keep himself emotional restrained as he explains to his wife that they may be losing their home.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t want to sell our home, especially after how hard we worked to get here, but it’s a matter of survival. I thought things would kick back by now but things keep holding on and holding on and business is suffering and now.” ~Clyde
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You Were Never There

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Faye
• Duration: 1-2 -minute monologue
• Description: Faye’s dad shows up at her job trying to develop a better relationship with her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Making me feel like I’m supposed to pretend the past never existed. I can’t start that way! I can’t act like that!” ~Faye
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A Shade or Two Darker

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lion
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Lion stands up to both his parents in order to defend his integrity and color of his skin.
• Monologue Snippet: “And what hurts me most is that the both of you do nothing. You carry on with your everyday lives like everything is fine, when this world is on fire!” ~Lion
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Gap in the Shelf

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mother
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Henry faces off with his Mother during dinner, over a Chekhov short story collection that he removed from the family reading room.
• Monologue Snippet: “It is at this very point in time that our esteemed guest finds a gap in the shelf. We mustn’t have that. Therefore, all books remain on the shelves at all times, unless reading and reading only takes place inside the library room. That’s final.” ~Mother
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Even The Color Blue

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Johan
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Johan is faced with the need to come out to his parents, but the problem is that his father is ill, which causes a terrible conflict with his mother.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just want to be accepted for who I truly am, not for who everyone thinks I am.” ~Johan
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Mr. Bad Mood

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bill
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Bill knows that he is a dying man and he explains to his son why he chooses to remain at the lighthouse.
• Monologue Snippet: “The sound of the waves crashing against them rocks…the sand, the gulls, the fire…a good book will do me, accompanied with scotch and I’m home at last…home, at last.” ~Bill
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Drinks on the House

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Leon
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Leon admits to his daughter that he doesn’t have long left on this Earth.
• Monologue Snippet: “I am fully aware that I don’t deserve much and that by my saying I am dying is almost a lame excuse to ask you this, so late in the game, but if there’s anything that has ever mattered to me in my life, it’s you.” ~Leon
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The Last Time

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Wendy
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Wendy is asked for money from the father she never sees because he is involved in a life or death situation.  This dark moment reveals a painful past between this father and daughter that may or may not shift when Wendy’s boyfriend Roger gets involved.
• Monologue Snippet: “Being divorced from mom and trying to grow your business, but I can’t help but wonder how much you ever truly loved me to just leave like you did. (beat) I was never a focal point in your life, was I?” ~Wendy
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Cartwheel Leaf

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Riza
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Riza talks about how her boyfriend’s tattoo has changed her perspective in relation to her mother.
• Monologue Snippet: “My head was pounding, and I was getting so worked up that I felt the blood rise to my neck. I was losing my patience, but then I remembered Leon’s tattoo, and I instantly calmed down.” ~Riza
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Treat Me Nice

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Corinne
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Corinne doesn’t get along with her mother.  They live together.  Just the two of them.  They are masters at pushing one another’s buttons.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m not, you know, some worker that you’ve hired to cook and clean.  I am your daughter.  I don’t feel like I’m your daughter, but I am, I guess.” ~Corinne
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Of Distance Run

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Clark
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Clark and Pedro bury their father, but only one of them receive an inheritance.
• Monologue Snippet: “Didn’t he want me to do something? Have some part of him with me…at least give over the truck. He could have—we would have—” ~Clark
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Sack of Feathers

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jackie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jackie talks tough to her daughter in order to help her grow her backbone for business and life.
• Monologue Snippet: “Looking at you from the waste up, all I see is intelligence wasted. You mope around the premises like there’s a gun to your head.” ~Jackie
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Before The Light Went Out

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Samuel
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Samuel needs to find the courage to emotionally support his family in need, despite coming from a broken home.
• Monologue Snippet: “I needed to tell her before the light went out, but I couldn’t, you see, not for the way we been treated, you see…not for the way we were raised all those years…less than wounded animals” ~Samuel
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The Face of a Great Actress

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Amber
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Amber isn’t happy with all the attention her husband Cody gives to their daughter and fears it’s spoiling her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Because you spoil her rotten. She has more stuffed dolls than I’ve ever seen. We could open up a toy store at this point Cody. ” ~Amber
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The Way Home

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jasmine
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jasmine tries to convince her parents that she is ready to move out and live on her own.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just, I need my freedom. I need time, time to think and be in my own thoughts with things, I want to be my own person, Mom.” ~Jasmine
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The Ghosts of Our Ancestors

• Genre: Drama / Period Drama
• Character: Tiara
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Tiara tries to concoct a plan with her uncle in order to save their family’s estate.
• Monologue Snippet: “He is honest and decent and you shouldn’t bad mouth him the way that you do. If he has an ill opinion of you than so be it, but what do you care about what he thinks regardless.” ~Tiara
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Negative Energy

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rose
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gina asks her roommate Rose if her sister Meagan can live with them temporarily things get heated, especially when Meagan shows up at their front door.   
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m exhausted and have no strength to do anything for myself that pleases me. I have to work up the positive energy inside myself to get out of whatever crappy state of mind you put me in to begin with. I don’t want to do this anymore.” ~Rose
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