62 Drama Monologues for College Auditions (18-22)
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Coffee Table
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Melanie
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Melanie’s life now exists inside an asylum where her daily treatments confuse her into not knowing where reality begins or ends.
- Monologue Snippet: “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.” ~Melanie
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Checking In
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Rob
- Duration: 2-minute monologue
- Description: After being abandoned by his father as a child and promising his mother to locate him while on her deathbed, Rob finds his dad and releases everything he feels for so many years.
- Monologue Snippet: “I want you to know that I think you’re a piece of sh’t. You were never a man. You f’kn ditched us for your own selfish needs and I hate you for it. I was hoping you’d be dead.” ~Rob
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Gone Too Soon
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Tarva
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Tarva wishes her father would make the effort to change in order to spend more time with his grandkids.
- Monologue Snippet: “Doesn’t it concern you that I travel two hours each day to make sure you haven’t died? I cook for you, clean for you, shop for you. And I can’t stand you moaning each time you make your way to the toilet, which is happening too often now.” ~Tarva
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Dark Place
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Jeffrey
- Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: After a horrific altercation on set in a theatre, Jeffrey has a new home in an asylum where he gets treated for his mental illness.
- Monologue Snippet: “Does it matter to you that I am going mad? Not sure I can go away and reflect on it. Not sure I can get through my own madness. If I can go to the top of a mountain, like a Buddhist monk, perhaps I may have a chance.” ~Jeffrey
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Don’t Leave Me Without Muffin
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Ginger
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Ginger has a final conversation with her mother before leaving home for good.
- Monologue Snippet: “This whole life, I am done! I am done thinking that one day it can change. The only real change that will ever happen is if I make the change myself and I am LEAVING!” ~Ginger
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Wasted Talent
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Donnie
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Donnie talks about the talented friend he lost due to suicide.
- Monologue Snippet: “He did it for so long with no financial gain, no recognition for his genius, and he couldn’t do it anymore…he gave up, and that’s why he hung himself in his studio; he couldn’t do it anymore.” ~Donnie
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Momma, I’m No Fool
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Daphne
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Daphne explains to her mother that she is having a first time meeting with her biological father.
- Monologue Snippet: “…I found out who my father is, and it ain’t Hector, it ain’t any of the clowns you be talkin’ ’bout but I found out…you disgust me, Momma.” ~Daphne
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A Shade or Two Darker
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Lion
- Duration: 1-2 -minute monologue
- Description: Lion is darker skinned than his parents and this has caused much unspoken anguish, until now.
- Monologue Snippet: “I won’t hold my tongue. Ever since I was a little boy I was treated differently and I never knew why, until I saw other young men like me, look like me and befriend me…why, I thought? WHY?” ~Lion
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To The Lake
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Barb
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Barb tells the story about how she firmly believes she was definitely a crocodile in her past life.
- Monologue Snippet: “I was a crocodile in my past life. I am so sure of it. Always have these thoughts, past memories from living under water and on land.” ~Barb
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Waking Hours
- Genre: Serio-Comedy
- Character: Willis
- Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: Willis is completely bent out of shape after witnessing two birds who meet their death by flying into a high rise building window.
- Monologue Snippet: “Do you think it was the same bird that was maybe depressed and lonely for those couple of days and then decided, “To hell with it, I’m not flying solo no more.” ~Willis
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Mad to the Core
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Phebe
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: After Phoebe learns that her father killed himself, she does a three-sixty with her own life.
- Monologue Snippet: “It’s ’cause of everything. Everything. I’m wastin’ time here, Dean! Dying a slow death. Livin’ the same day. Seeing the same houses, the same faces, havin’ the same talks in the same houses with the same faces who live inside of ’em. Nothin’s new!!” ~Phebe
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Landed on Lucky
- Genre: Serio-Comedy
- Character: Sam
- Duration: 2-minute monologue
- Description: Sam tries to get Carol to understand why and how he accidentally killed her beloved dog Lucky.
- Monologue Snippet: “CAROL, I swear it forever, I didn’t want to kill Lucky, but I had no choice. It happened. I didn’t wish it to happen, but it did happen. I’m trying to tell ya because it’s been sitting on my chest all this time, and I can’t take the weight of it all. I got enough to carry around.” ~Sam
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In the Hour of Rain
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Alanna
- Duration: 2-minute monologue
- Description: Alanna justifies her drinking problem to her friend.
- Monologue Snippet: “I drink to get away from it, the memories. To free myself. I don’t have the kind of memories you have as a kid, Mia. Don’t have the happy-go-lucky family gatherings on a Sunday!” ~Alanna
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The Last Words I Heard Her Say
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Heath
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Heath talks to his mother while she lay dying in a hospital bed incoherent.
- Monologue Snippet: “They have you all rigged up, don’t they? (pause.) Well, I’m here… I don’t want to be here, but I’m here; you asked me to be here, and I’m here, alright? ” ~Heath
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Fallen Money
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Ruby
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Ruby tries to convince Paul that he has to take her with him because she too wishes to escape her life.
- Monologue Snippet: “We won’t have to do this alone, and that counts. I don’t think I could do this on my own. That’s the truth; maybe you can, maybe you’re the stronger one out of us all, but we could help each other.” ~Ruby
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The Correct Source
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Dillard
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Dillard makes it apparently clear for Ewen to do his evil bidding.
- Monologue Snippet: “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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Peanuts on the Dollar
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Chester
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Chester wishes to save his mother’s life by committing a crime to get the money she needs for an operation.
- Monologue Snippet: “No more roaches that come to sleep with you at night. I want big windows so our house is filled with light, lots of light with a view of the ocean, so my mom can go to the beach and laugh with the dolphins and get tan whenever she wants.” ~Chester
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I Saw Two Clouds in the Sky Kiss Once
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Luna
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Luna is in a rehabilitation program but takes her frustrations out on her counselor.
- Monologue Snippet: ” I get the feeling things are falling apart. Take you, for example. You’re an awkward fellow, if you don’t mind my saying so. Clearly, something is amiss.” ~Luna
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Petals From a Rose
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Clifford
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Clifford tells the whole truth over how his mind stopped working properly.
- Monologue Snippet: “My mind, Margaret. It is not well. Something happened to me on that day. Something came over my mind. I suddenly believed myself to be unworthy of you, of our love, of our future.” ~Clifford
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Nameless Grace
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Colette
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Colette believes that her former lover has returned from war after being announced dead.
- Monologue Snippet: “No one told me he was alive! (Beat) I watched him from behind the hedge; I saw what had become of him. (She drops her apple to the ground unknowingly.) Everything was retained, his hair, his gestures, his strength…until I noticed a sudden movement he made, a movement that wasn’t his own, as if something or someone had taken control of him. ” ~Colette
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Woman With Wings
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Kelton
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Kelton talks about how lifeless and purposeless his life has become.
- Monologue Snippet: “First, I was taken back by being the only one out here on the patio for such a lively event; then I noticed this dreadful dead silence; then I thought it wasn’t so dreadful after all. It was the kind of silence where only our own movements are heard, which led me to my usual, unsettling, morbid thoughts.” ~Kelton
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Gleam of Dawn
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Annie
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Annie talks to her ex-boyfriend about the unloving marriage she has found herself living.
- Monologue Snippet: “I can’t take another day with him. I thought perhaps I would see him in a different light, that everything he promised would — but it was all so cold, as if it were only his duty, no warmth, no affection, just business as usual, as if all we were to each other was some well thought out business arrangement with all the rules mapped out for the both of us ahead of time.” ~Annie
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The Dance
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Chester
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Chester makes an attempt at trying to get closer to Elsie who may or may not respond favorably to his effort.
- Monologue Snippet: “I watched you dance because I enjoyed watching you. I liked seeing you have a good time, being free, full of laughter, and expressive…the way I wish I could be.” ~Chester
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No Is Better Than Silence
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Kyra
- Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: Kyra talks to her boyfriend about the reasons behind her leaving him.
- Monologue Snippet: “You see, for the longest time I’ve felt less. Not so much as a woman, I’ve always kept that intact but more so as a human being. I fell into the trap of relying on you, for everything.” ~Kyra
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Before The Night Blows Cold
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Billy
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Billy tries to justify his disappearance to his girlfriend Azumi.
- Monologue Snippet: “I been trying ever since to raise the cash back and I’ve come close a few times, but…tonight I thought I finally had it but as always I have no luck and it’s worse cause I took off at some card game, took some lumps but barely got away and now I have all kinds of people after me” ~Billy
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Treat Me Nice
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Corinne
- Duration: 2-minute monologue
- Description: Corinne tries to connect to her mother and find common ground for fear of their relationship always being broken.
- Monologue Snippet: “I’m sorry I’m not all that you hoped for and that this life we live here together isn’t glamorous and that Dad abandoned us when I was born and you shouldn’t make me feel like it’s my fault! (beat) I didn’t even know the guy.” ~Corinne
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See Me As A Stranger
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Gordy
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Gordy talks about a weird experience that has given him a new lease on life.
- Monologue Snippet: “Everything made sense to me again in a flash but now I’m left thinking that I was better off not knowing my life, that I wish I could erase it all…” ~Gordy
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The Broken Piano
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Peggy
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Peggy shows no appreciation for her mother having bought her new headphones for her music playing.
- Monologue Snippet: “You’re so clever. You coaxed me into going into that dreadful shop. I couldn’t have cared less about going there but you guided me to it and of course I wanted to go in but it wasn’t my original intention, I wasn’t even thinking about going into the music shop. I’m broke. I have no money.” ~Peggy
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Rupert’s Reverie
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Rupert
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Rupert talks to his Aunt about how he has changed from the little boy she remembers him to be.
- Monologue Snippet: “I’ve always loved the stars. The way they glimmer at night as if they are talking to you, trying to say something we aren’t capable of hearing. ” ~Rupert
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Cartwheel Leaf
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Riza
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Riza tells her friend how her boyfriend’s tattoo has helped alleviate stress with her mother.
- Monologue Snippet: “Like if we take our point of view about something that makes us angry as hell, if we flip our perspective on it, see it from the opposite side, we might realize all this negative feeling we have inside of us, is all for nothing. ” ~Riza
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Big Time
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Maddock
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Maddock tells his boxing manager that he wants a different path on life.
- Monologue Snippet: “By the time I discovered that this was all about the hustle and quick bucks, I was past my prime and stuck, stuck in this place where I had to keep fighting before it got the last of me.” ~Maddock
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For All We’ve Got
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Luna
- Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: Luna is reaching out to her friend, trying to figure out how they can make what she calls a ‘real’ life for themselves.
- Monologue Snippet: “There’s gotta be more than what’s around us, no? I don’t want an average life; but I don’t know what I want, and I’m—I hear the ticking, time, I see it runnin’ out on me..” ~Luna
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End of the Rabbit Hole
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Jeff
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Jeff needs his friend to do him one last favor.
- Monologue Snippet: “My whole life has been a series of bad decisions. You know me better than anybody. I ain’t ever gonna get out of this one Marshal. I’ve reached the end of the rabbit hole, there’s no light left. I’m not the brightest, we know that and I’m guilty of it, but it’s not rocket science to know they were gunning for me.” ~Jeff
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One-Way Conversation
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Bella
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Bella complains to her mother about always feeling ignored and never supported.
- Monologue Snippet: “You don’t understand, you don’t ever hear what I’m trying to say to you. It’s always a one-way conversation.” ~Bella
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Glimmer of Light
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Beck
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Beck lays in on the guy he likes that he has no choice but to kill him anyway.
- Monologue Snippet: “You know, Woody, I like you. You are one of those people and it’s very rare, very rare, you are one of those people that crosses my path and I take a liking to for no particular reason other than I take to ya.” ~Beck
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Gone Before You Left
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Tash
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Tash begs Peggy to take her to New York so she can change her life forever.
- Monologue Snippet: “Peggy, don’t you see where my future’s heading? You know how terrible it is here. I can’t do another day here in this place without thinking I’m going to lose my mind.” ~Tash
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Of Distance Run
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Clark
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Clark explains to his brother the important of him letting him have their father’s truck.
- Monologue Snippet: “With that ride I could travel far, and you’ll never hear from me again. It’ll be a peace offering. It’ll be like…like he’s driving with me in a way, or like he cared enough about me to pass the baton…’cause he wanted me to…didn’t he?” ~Clark
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Snowdrift
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Trudy
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Trudy talks about the father she always knew and loved, despite the separation she always felt with him.
- Monologue Snippet: “I remember him having to put his arm around my shoulders to keep his balance. Each step we took seemed like forever; he kept holding on, never letting me go, and then something happened; it must have been only for a few seconds;” ~Trudy
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Dream Light
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Eugene
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Eugene talks about how he befriended a mouse.
- Monologue Snippet: “Once, he nestled himself in the front pocket of my shirt, and he quietly fell asleep. It was a charming sight, watching him. I had to finish my shift while he slept the entire time, moving gently so as not to disturb him or bump into anything.” ~Eugene
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Grain of Sand
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Sasha
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Sasha gives someone a stern warning if they are to continue bullying someone she loves.
- Monologue Snippet: “Now look, I’m pretty easygoing and all and you seem like a nice guy and I admit it must be pretty easy for you to agree with me, without me threatening you and all because I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt, but there are major consequences if you don’t listen to me” ~Sasha
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Dead Man’s Wallet
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Cal
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Cal tries to justify why he ran someone over while driving.
- Monologue Snippet: “Kya…I was in a rage…my mind went blank. Everything became fogged. Nothing was clear. I was losing myself…I couldn’t stop myself from feeling…it was…all I heard was the violence; I entered a terrible place within myself, so deafening I couldn’t think, and in that instant I couldn’t stop it;” ~Cal
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Back on the Map
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Chiara
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Chiara feels that she has been hustled by her promoter friend because of the terrible exhibition she has had for her art show.
- Monologue Snippet: “You sold me on your scheme. Look now…look around you…what do we have? Huh? Where is this fun, exciting, memorable exhibition you claimed?” ~Chiara
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Crimson
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Mel
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Chuckie wants to take Holly out for a cup of coffee, despite the criminal exchange that’s taking place.
- Monologue Snippet: “One cup of coffee with me is all I ask. It’ll go by fast, since I talk fast, and you might grow to like me. I can be charming, despite this scar on my face. I’m known to bring out a smile in people. At least, brighten them up. I do that.” ~Chuckie
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Ache and Moan
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Kendra
- Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: Kendra sets the record straight on how life is going to be when it comes to surviving the street life.
- Monologue Snippet: “I told you, you come work for me, your life’s gonna be different. I never made no promises, in fact I never make no promises to anyone cause I learned early on that life doesn’t allow you to keep ’em, so why make ’em?” ~Kendra
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Walter’s Study
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Franklin
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Franklin wants to have a better relationship with his father but doesn’t foresee that happening anytime soon.
- Monologue Snippet: “Is that not possible? Don’t you wish to know what the hell is going on in my own life? Don’t you give a damn? I see my friends and they have these wonderful relationships with their fathers and I look back on us and nothing ever matches.” ~Franklin
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What Never Was
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Serena
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Serena doesn’t want to see her music band split up and she hits them all with a dose of truth.
- Monologue Snippet: “For better or worse, each of us gave something to this and what you did tonight killed something more than making a crummy album.” ~Serena
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Cold Sunday
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Roger
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Roger shares the story of what how he was attacked by a dog who he thought was his friend.
- Monologue Snippet: “You didn’t hear me the first bloody time. (sighs) Alright. (sighs again) I pulled up on my bike like I always do. I entered through that stupid gate like I always do and walked to the backyard.” ~Roger
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God’s Green Earth
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Darby
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Darby tries to give her brother encouragement to face life and take the bull by the horns.
- Monologue Snippet: “Life knocks you down so many times, it gets harder and harder to get back up, and…sometimes, sometimes you can’t…you’ve taken all the hits you can take…which is why I’m saying to you now that if you condition yourself…to fight” ~Darby
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Glass of Blue
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Philly
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Philly tries to justify why he has been spying on his ex-girlfriend.
- Monologue Snippet: “I like lookin’ at her…not…not in a crazy way. I like seeing her do her own thing, with no one watching. I mean, I know I’m watching, but without her knowing that anyone’s watching, ’cause it’s nice to see her in her natural state. Does that make sense?” ~Philly
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Negative Energy
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Rose
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Rose can’t take her roommates’s sister because she is always in a bad mood.
- Monologue Snippet: “THIS, it’s always something. Whenever I come home from work you have some sort of issue going on and I can’t deal with it. I need my space and I need my peace. You make everything such a big deal and it’s becoming too much.” ~Rose
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Earthbound
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Barney
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Barney wishes to be something more in his life but doesn’t know how to go about it.
- Monologue Snippet: “I wish, to be something different; I don’t want to be human. I don’t just want to be stuck inside this body. I don’t want to have to die. I don’t want to ignore the things I don’t understand or suffer all night trying to understand them.” ~Barney
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The World Changed Colour
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Michelle
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Michelle talks about the loss of her sister.
- Monologue Snippet: “I wish I had more time with her, that’s all. I just wanted to tell her once how I felt, just once. I didn’t wanna argue with her, didn’t wanna fight, I just wanted to look into her eyes just once and tell her I loved her.” ~Michelle
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Nine Times Out of Ten
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Andy
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Andy seems to be coming to terms with his own strange qualities.
- Monologue Snippet: “To me, if I call someone off, it means they are off, as in, crazy or not wrapped too tight. Like, something’s not working right upstairs.” ~Andy
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The Goldfish
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Kimmie
- Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: Kimmie has an odd way of trying to make Cameron feel better about his own life.
- Monologue Snippet: “I killed a goldfish once. My mother took me to the pet shop when I was six years old an’ I stood in front of this big ole tank an’ the man who worked there asked me to pick out any fish I wanted an’ so I did.” ~Kimmie
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Vin Rogue
- Genre: Serio-Comedy
- Character: Cosmo
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: Cosmo explains his theory of love and relationships.
- Monologue Snippet: “I look at you, and I see a woman. A woman of the soil. Rich in nutrients. Full of lust. You make me chew my tongue with hope. Do you see? I am a lovebird.” ~Cosmo
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Cowboyville
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Wendy
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: There is so much beneath the words for Wendy that she can barely contain and restrain herself.
- Monologue Snippet: “You have somewhere else to be, somewhere more important than drudging up your past. I get it. I didn’t fully realize it till this exact moment, that I am existing in your past. I had my suspicion, but I didn’t choose to believe in my suspicion.” ~Wendy
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Eye of the Whale
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Gene
- Duration: 2-minute monologue
- Description: Gene talks about how he was out in the ocean on a raft and became friends with a whale.
- Monologue Snippet: “Ahh, there it is, finally, the good ole stare into the glass to see what’s at the bottom…and what is it? I know what’s at the bottom. I’ve been to the bottom of the sea…I was on a wooden raft for three weeks once; about one hundred miles off the coast of Bermuda.” ~Gene
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Better Version of Jenny
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Jenny
- Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: Jenny talks about her selfishness in how she doesn’t wish for anyone else to be happy, either.
- Monologue Snippet: “I was standing in the rain by myself at the bus stop. I must have been waiting for the damn bus for twenty minutes. I was meeting Roger for coffee and dessert to go over our project together, and I looked a wreck from the weather.” ~Jenny
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Bottom of the Ladder
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Ray
- Duration: 2-minute monologue
- Description: Ray shares a tragic tale of how his cousin died.
- Monologue Snippet: “I tried to pull him up but I wasn’t strong enough…finally, he gave out, he became lifeless and all I could do was look down at him, until the train reached its destination, hours later…it was, it was the worst thing I’d ever seen.” ~Ray
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Oleander
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Harper
- Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
- Description: Harper hires a hit woman to kill her boyfriend.
- Monologue Snippet: “Tell ’em…tell ’em it didn’t have to be this way. Tell ’em I tried. I tried to give him time to fix his bad ways. He refused, he refused to change, and…he hurt me so much I cried like a child.” ~Harper
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The Arrangement
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Hardwicke
- Duration: 1-minute monologue
- Description: A monologue serving as metaphor for something much darker.
- Monologue Snippet: “I despise weeds. Especially those that most blend in, the ones that are clever at being undetected. They choke the life out of everything that is good.” ~Hardwicke
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Destination Wrong
- Genre: Drama
- Character: Clara
- Duration: 2-minute monologue
- Description: Clara sets the boundaries for a guy she just met.
- Monologue Snippet: “You must think I’m trash; handing me wine in a cup. I come from noble stock. NO-BIL-I-TY. I don’t have to be here; I choose to be here. Don’t get me confused.” ~Clara
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