Practice Monologues for Actors from Published Plays

Practice Monologues for Actors from Published Plays gives actors and drama teachers a series of free monologues from contemporary plays.

For thousands of free original monologues check out our main Monologue Hub, wherein each monologue is derived from a play script.

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Monologue Blogger writes and shares monologues that come from our own catalogue of published play scripts.  If you ever need more than a monologue, you can also immediately access the full play it comes from.

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Please keep in mind that you are free to use any of our monologues for auditions, acting class or online video uploads.

Practice monologues from plays may help you dive deeper into your character study and understanding of the story overall.

In addition to your chosen monologue, when you have a play that the monologue comes from, you will gain more insight into so many more elements for your acting choices.

If you are working with a drama teacher, there will be more analysis to digest and develop from, regarding character building, relationships, imaginary circumstances and so much more.

Faces on the Edge of Spring

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jeanne
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: After doubting her boyfriend’s loyalty, Jeanne tells Franco that she wishes to end their tumultuous relationship.
• Monologue Snippet: “My mind has already begun to split. So, I’m leaving.” ~Jeanne
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CLEO

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Cleo
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Cleo is an aristocrat with a mental illness who believes that everyone is out to kill her.
• Monologue Snippet: “I sense the darkness in her very being, but I am planning something particular for her, mind you. I am not going anywhere.” ~Chester
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In the Murk of Night

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Edith, Joaquin
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Edith explains to her son why she should have taken more risks in her life.
• Monologue Snippet: “That’s why I am such a curious person, yet as nasty as can be. I spent my life missing out on the chances I should have taken.” ~Edith
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Sliver of Sincerity

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lenora
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Lenora and Emily have a terrible argument and their father steps in after he hears a crash.
• Monologue Snippet: “Even when you show a sliver of sincerity it comes off so put on and controlled because you start making strange faces.” ~Lenora
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Nameless Grace

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Colette, Doctor Baum
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Linda has a heart other than heart conversation with a taxi driver after witnessing her boyfriend cheat on her.
• Monologue Snippet: “He had grown quite pale, with those same jet-black eyes of his, but he was confused…like a lost boy searching for an answer to something that didn’t make sense; he was beautiful but was wrong.” ~Colette
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Before The Night Blows Cold

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Billy, Azumi
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: After three months of not being around, Billy shows up at Azumi’s place, expecting her to hide him from all his troubles.
• 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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Old Habits Die Slowly

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Wilford
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Wilford talks to his daughter about the difficult break in their family and the reasons as to why it has occurred.
• Monologue Snippet: “Don’t think your father doesn’t have other interests, oh, I have a great many interests…many things to occupy my time, my mind…my mind has always been my greatest asset, you know…when one knows how to take the time to think, all will be very well.” ~Wilford
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Qualified for the Job

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jack
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Jack talks about how his job changed his life for the better and wishes to be of some support for his boss’ situation.
• Monologue Snippet: “I sometimes imagine what I would have done had I not been hired that day I came in for my interview with you” ~Jack
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Sliced Thin

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Marci, Denny, Greg
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Marci goes head to head with her son in order to keep him off the streets and remain focused on his education.
• Monologue Snippet: “I knew you needed what it took to take down an army. Now look at you, head down, eyes dull and never looking up…always staring down where I warned you to never look. ” ~Marci
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The Last Words I Heard Her Say

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Charlie Junior, Heath, Charlie Senior, Nurse, Mother
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Heath visits his mother in the hospital to be at her side on the final day of her life.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m not what you always thought me to be; I’m not worthy..of anything, and I’m not good enough to be here for you like this… I’m not…I don’t know why you chose me, Mom…” ~Heath
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Drenched to the Bone

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Miles
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Miles unexpectedly arrives at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment in order to see her because he misses her so much.
• Monologue Snippet: “I know I may not mean anything to you anymore and I totally get that and it’s a real, uh, I really appreciate you letting me in your apartment and allowing me to see you cause I don’t think I’d be as good to me as you are to me if I were you looking at me…am I making sense?” ~Miles
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Killing You

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Killer
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Killer may have a change of heart with the catch of their latest prey.
• Monologue Snippet: “With you, it’s different.  Don’t know why.  I just don’t know why. (beat) Why?  Why can’t I kill you?  I have no feelings for you whatsoever.  I don’t know you.  We’ve never met.  So strange.” ~Killer
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Three Blank Pages

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mr. Miles
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Preston visits his English Professor Mr. Miles because he doesn’t understand why his blank essay submission received an A grade.
• Monologue Snippet: “You chose my class, but you wish to be a flunky. You arrive late and your desk is never clean, nor do you carry a writing pad or a pen. And today, you stand before me with a complaint, a complaint that you are getting graded much higher than what you deserve.” ~Mr. Miles
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In the Wake of Smoke

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Daphne, Morrison
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Daphne and Morrison come home after being out at the pub and Daphne is in a bitter rage over the fact that women keep talking to Morrison, and the fact that she thinks they aren’t getting as much out of life that they should be getting.
• Monologue Snippet: “We are in a drought, that’s it, a drought from lack of feeding ourselves the nutrition of existence. We have become polished!” ~Daphne
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A Decent Man

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Fabian
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Fabian visits Father Del Henney to try and find a better road he could take before acting on his negative impulses.
• Monologue Snippet: “I know it’s not right for me to give them what they deserve, but it’s so difficult to not act on my deepest impulses..you know me, you know I’ve been this way my entire life.” ~Fabian
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In the Face of the Beast

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Willa, Father Lewis
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Father Lewis tries to give good warning to Willa, who does not seem intimidated by the murderous beast roaming their town.
• Monologue Snippet: “Enter the grounds and pray, Willa. Stay out of harm’s path, and I am certain no harm will come to you. ” ~Father Lewis
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Midnight Sighs

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Dom, Elle, Boyd
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Dom is dumbfounded over the fact that the woman he’s been chasing for years has suddenly went off with another man inside of an hour.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’ve been at it for three years. Three years. Not even a cup of coffee. Believe that? I couldn’t even strike up the nerve to ask her out for a cup of coffee. I’d come in here every week, I couldn’t take my eyes off her, thinking about how beautiful she is, I always made her laugh. Loads of times, good times.” ~Dom
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Snowdrift

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Trudy, Barney
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Trudy comes home after saying a final goodbye to her beloved puppy Trixie.
• Monologue Snippet: “I think one time I felt it, but it was only an accident. My daddy was stone-cold drunk and needed assistance to get up the stairs. ” ~Trudy
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Songs From the Courtyard

• Genre: Serio-Comedy
• Character: Paul, McKenzie
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Paul drunkenly explains to his girlfriend that he doesn’t know how to fix himself.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’d have to be rebuilt, or somethin’…. yeah? I’ve got to get torn down and made from scratch, ’cause that’s the only way I could love you without threat. I could love you with wings.” ~Paul
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Fade To Black

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Gram
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gram is in an ongoing battle with his two sons Gill and Beauford about taking over the house after he dies and turning it into a bed and breakfast.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’ve never been able to take a step beyond myself and be the person I always imagined myself being. How do people do that? You ever wonder?” ~Gram
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The Visitant

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Rick
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Rick recounts the odd experience he had when he approached a blind man on the sidewalk.
• Monologue Snippet: “I got the feeling from him that he was expecting me. BUT–you know when you walk into someone’s home and they receive you in such a way because they are expecting you? (beat) He was expecting me.” ~Rick
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