Monologues

Modern Monologue 1

Little Victories is about a boy who lives with his mum and his dad is dead. With his new step dad, all three go on a trip to France where he meets a girl.Tony has a difficult life. His father has died recently and his mother, Debs has taken up with a "plonker" called Gordon. When Gordon arrives with presents in hand, Tony expects the worst, but he finds that Gordon is not so bad after all-he is given Death-Dealer, level one hundred, a game that takes the player to strange and exiting places and challenges him to do battle with the evil skullmort the reaper and find the basket of light . And Gordon also take them to France, where they meet Josie, a no-nonsense girl who is a whizz at Death Dealer. But Josie is dying of cancer and in the end in a touching scene in the hospital while there paying death dealer together she dies in the game and in real life at the same time.

In my monologue Tony has a moment with the audience near the beginning of the play and starts explaing how his dad just died and all the boyfriends his mum has had since. Its a light hearted fun little speech and has some funny bits.

I like this monologue as its just stripped back me talking to the audience and its not something the audience need to know the backstory for and the character is chidish and child like and that would be fun to play.

Shakespeare Monologue 1

Winters tale is a story of two kings who were the best of friends, (Polixenes and Leontes) but when Leontes gets convinced that Polixenes is having an affair with his wife that's where the story starts. Polixenes goes back to his castle and a pregnant Leontes' wife gets sent to the dungeon.

When she gives birth to a girl called Perdita in the dungeon and the child is sent to a far away land near Polixines' home land and the story goes to 16 years in the future and then Perdita falls in love with Leontes's son Prince Florizel.

The two go back to King Polixenes' home land and the king takes in her daughter and her mother comes back and they all live happily ever after and the kings become friends again.

My character is a theif that helps the prince and princess get to King leontes' land but before that he has just finished tricking the village people in a festival and selling rubbish goods for a good amount of money and in this monologue he is showing off to the audience about how stupid the village people were and how proud of himself he is and boasting.

I like this monologue because its fun and not something to be taken too seriously and it would be fun playing a sneaky devious character.

Winter’s Tale

Autolycus. Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his 
sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold 
all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a 
ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, 
knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring,

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to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who 
should buy first, as if my trinkets had been 
hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer: 
by which means I saw whose purse was best in 
picture; and what I saw, to my good use I

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remembered. My clown, who wants but something to 
be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the 
wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes 
till he had both tune and words; which so drew the 
rest of the herd to me that all their other senses

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stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it 
was senseless; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a 
purse; I could have filed keys off that hung in 
chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song, 
and admiring the nothing of it. So that in this

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time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their 
festival purses; and had not the old man come in 
with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's 
son and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not 
left a purse alive in the whole army.

Modern Monologue 2

My second modern is from the book "Fat Pig" by Niel Labute. The story is of a man called Tom who is in love with a woman who happens to be "plus sized" and in the end of the story Tom gets convinced to break up with her on the accounts that he is young and should spend his youth living his life to the fullest and also he didn't like people talking about him and he did feel a bit embarrassed about her too.

In my monologue Tom is confessing his love to her and is a awkward and shy scene. He is babbling  a lot and starts to go off on a tangent slightly.

I feel this is a good monologue for me as the character is dopey and shy and that is what im like, and I know what its like to be in an awkward position like this.