Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Looking for a good monologue?

I am gonna audition for a play my college is putting on (Bus Stop by William Inge). It is my first ever audition, or play for that matter. I would like some pointers and a few suggestion for a monologue a beginner should attempt at. I have found a monologue I liked: http://www.notmyshoes.net/monologues/reach.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Update:

Here's another monologue I like: http://www.monologuearchive.com/t/twain_008.html

2 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    When giving your monologue, face downstage as much as possible. Look for ways to open yourself to the audience. Don't practice looking at a chair as if you're talking to another person.

    Never give your lines to the directors, judges, or anyone else in the audience as if you're communicating with that person. The judge doesn't want to have to give you an answer back. He wants to critique your acting.

    If you're giving your monologue to an imaginary listener, place the person downstage from you in your mind. But don't look around as if your imaginary person is moving. You might be mistaken for losing your focus.

    If there is a point in your monologue where you're speaking off into space, look at the back of the house, over the judges heads. Find a point, such as the light booth to focus on during that park of the scene.

    Don't pantomime actions like drinking or smoking. Just don't.

    You should probably not sit down when giving the scene because it might rob you of the energy you can give.

    Don't look at the stage floor, there isn't anyone there!

    Speak confidently, don't go back and start over, and never apologize for messing up.

    Be yourself and have fun :]

    Source(s): More Scenes and Monologos from the best New Plays by Roger Ellis.
  • 1 decade ago

    if you need a monologue for this audition, i have lost all respect for the director Look at Lone Star.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.