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Well, most monologues aren't 3-4 minutes with out blocking, but there are some good ones. Alan Ayckbourn is really good, there is one from 'It could be anyone of us'. That would be pretty tough to find so:

Norris: Ladies and gentlemen, I am about to present to you a murderer. As You're aware, over the past weekend, a whole chain of extraordinary, seemingly disconnected events has led inexorably to the fatal assault on the late Mortimer. Initially, as I say, a baffling series of events. At first sight, what was the possible connection between a wardrobe falling on a woman and an attack on a man at dead of night in his own study? Between a champagne glass filled with a potentially lethal mixture of disinfectant and an innocuous childrens song? What could it be? Back to the start. Two weeks ago when Mortimer angered by some irrational impulse, determined to leave this house and its contents to a near stranger. What consernation that caused. what a perfect motive for murder. Murder of the owner of the property? Possibly. Providing, that was, that the property had not already been left to the beneficiary. But what if it had? What if Mortimer had already drawn up the relevant documents, say, on musical manuscript paper, leaving everything to Wendy Windwood? Then it would be Wendy, rather than Mortimer, who became the focus of the murderer's intentions. Hence the events that followed her arrival. All of them events apparently, I say apparently, aimed against the woman who would finally inherit the house. Too late to do anything against Mortimer, for the die was cast. Who was it that, threatening the life of this innocent young woman? Was it Jocelyn? Desperate to preserve her home? Desperate that her family heritage should not pass into the hands of strangers purely on the whim of her half crazed brother? Or was it Amy? Hoping one day to inherit for herself? She was, after all, the natural heir to the Chalke fortunes. Or was it Brinton? Determined to persevere his own highly idiosyncratic way of life at any cost, even if the price was a brothers blood itself? Or was it me? Driven to desperate measures in an attempt to preserve my loved one's home? Curious, then, that the murderer should suddenly switch their attack from Wendy to Mortimer. Perhaps the'y learnt subsequently that Mortimer had not made a will after all. in which case, it becamer imperative to stop Mortimer from making one. Or could there be another, far subtler explanation? What if the early attempts were not genuine attempts at all but fakes, designed to draw our attention away from the real crime. What then? What if the brakes--you remember the brakes in the vehicle bringing her here--what if they had been tampered with during the journey and not before it? What if the wardrobe was designed not to kill but to distract? What if the switching of glasses was not accidental but deliberate? What if the victim was never Wendy, but Mortimer all the time? Where then does suspicion fall? Perhaps on someone who was in the car with Mortimer and took the opportunity, whilst he'd stopped to deliver magazines to old Annie, to slip an adjustable spanner from her handbag and tamper with the brakes herself. Knowing, as she did, how little of the journey remained, and thus how mild the risk of danger to her own person would be. What if this same person, as soon as she was alone in her room, produced from that same handbag a small screwdriver? Who then, removing the retaining screws, allowed the wardrobe to fall on her? A fortunate escape indeed. And remember, as a pet shop owner, she had undoubtedly developed a natural manual dexterity. What if she deliberately poisoned her own glass and allowed, by simple sleight of hand, the switch to take place with Mortimers glass? And what finally, if, having been frustrated in this attempt, she was forced to take her final, drastic, brutal action? Clubbing down the man beside his own piano? Possibly hiding the murder weapon inside the instruent itself and, later, during the ensuing confusion, returning it to the study and tampering with the window in there. In which direction does all this evidence point? Why, to the only person in this room who stood to gain from Mortimer's death. The person whom, I contend, plotted that death from the very second she was informed of her legacy. That person, ladies and gentlemen, is Wendy Windwood.
(Cuts may be given of course wherever you want them)

Now I had to type all that out. I hope your happy. :P
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