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Question: I need a monologue for drama class, please help!!?
I am in advanced drama in my high school, and we have been given an assignment to do a monologue with 'Extreme emotion!.' The emotion can be from Anger or frustration to Jubilation or Joy!. I'd like to do an angry/frustrated monologue but anything with the latter description will work!.

Thank you for any help you can give me! Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Check out The Laramie Project or Angels in America!. Both are fantastic shows splattered with angry/frustrated monologues!. Or browse the monologuedatabase!.com

Another monologue that has powerful emotion is Joan's testimony from Joan of Arc!. It has a great range and is really easy to interpret the intent/motivation etc!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Here are two monologues from Big Love by Charles Mee!. They may seem a little odd, and they certainly don't tell any kind of a story, but if you're in advanced drama get beyond that and really tune into the emotion of these pieces!.

Go to http://charlesmee!.com/html/big_love!.html to read the full script!. This is a great play and a great character!. When you get to college you can keep on using these monologues as well!

THYONA
I’ll tell you something, Olympia!.
You’re the kind of person
who ends up in the bottom of a ravine somewhere
with your underpants over your head!.
I’m trying to save your neck and you don’t even get it!
Do you think I like feeling this way!?
do you think Iit feels good tro feel bad all the time
do you think I wouldn’t rather just be a nice, happy
well-adjusted seeming person
who can just take it as it comes and like it!?
But I can’t just not be honest!.
Do you think that m akes me happy!?
To spend my whole life on earth
the only life I’m going to have
feeling angry!?
--------------------------------------!.!.!.
THYONA
What else can you do
if your father won't protect you
your country won't defend you
you flee to another country
and no one there will take care of you
what is left!?

Nothing except to take care of yourself!.

[silence]

We have no country!.
We have become our own country now
where we make the laws ourselves!.

And when these men take us to bed
on our wedding night
these men who left us no alternative
these men who force themselves on us,
we will meet force with force
and we will kill them
one by one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

try "Phedre " !.
It might be difficult but i think there's good monologues in it!.
http://www!.cummingsstudyguides!.net/Guide!.!.!.

Or the cid by Pierre Corneille!.
It's my favorite play and it's has beautiful monologues!.
http://www!.gutenberg!.org/catalog/world/r!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com