Please help need a monologue!!!!?

Question:Hello,

Now, I have looked all the websites, bought the monologue books and been to Samuel French. So please don't suggest these.

The only thing I haven't done is managed to read every single play out there.

Please suggest some pieces that I should considered doing. (I know it’s hard because you don’t know me, but it would be very much appreciated!)

Please bear in mind; I am 23 years old, female and have an RP accent.

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hello,

Now, I have looked all the websites, bought the monologue books and been to Samuel French. So please don't suggest these.

The only thing I haven't done is managed to read every single play out there.

Please suggest some pieces that I should considered doing. (I know it’s hard because you don’t know me, but it would be very much appreciated!)

Please bear in mind; I am 23 years old, female and have an RP accent.

Thanks in advance.

There are plenty of modern British dramatists out there--if nothing else, run a web search for "British Playwrights after 1950"

Alan Bennett has written a number of "television monologues"; they have also been performed as stage plays, and can be easily adapted to a theatrical audition. Take a look at 'A Woman of No Importance' or 'Talking Heads' (1 or 2).

Alan Ayckbourn is another prolific playwright; you might look at 'Comic Potential' and 'Communicating Doors' (I believe there are young(er) female roles in both).

check out orton's ruffian under the stair ( i think) - some ggod stuff in there. and surely you're accent shouldn't matter if you are acting?

You didn't say what you needed it for, would a modern song that tells Hamlet in a funny way be a good idea?
Lyrics at

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zi...

down load the track at itunes (by another artist possibly)

Three Sisters By Checkhov. Very powerful speech by Irina and Olga in there. Good monologue pieces.

I'm in the same position! I'm auditioning for the National Youth Theatre and need a monolouge. I went on www.actorplace.com I think it is and they have loads of monolgues. Advice: don't do Shakespeare unless they ask you to. By the time they've got round to you, after listening to 500 other Shakespeare monolouges, they seriously won't be listening. I don't think it is actor space, I'll email you the address tomorrow.

There's a really great one in 'The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband' by Debbie Isitt.