MONOLOGUES FOR MEN CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUES Play And People All Around Art
Playwright George Sklar
Character Don
Age 20s
Scene # 13
Yasmina Reza
Marc
35-40
A couple pages in “You don‟t understand the seriousness of this do you…”
Chekhov’s Gun
Picket Taylor
Jeffrey
16-18
The Day They Shot John Lennon Death of a Salesman
James McClure Arthur Miller
Silvio
25
Page 39
Biff
30
Act 2
Fat Kids on Fire
Bekah Brunstetter Jose Rivera
Bridger
17
Javier
21-25
Act II Scene IV Act 2
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Kevin Kling Steven Dietz
Sigismund
18-21
Page 14
Lloyd Carl
30‟s30‟s-40‟s 30-35
Pg. 81 Act 2 Scene 1 “I answered this ad…”
Scott
20s
48
Mr. Marmalade Guy
20s
Page 37
35-50
Zach
20s-30s
The House of Ramon Iglesia Life’s a Dream
Lloyd’s Prayer Lonely Planet
Magic Time Mr. Marmalade No Exit Ohio
James Sherman Noah Haidle Jean-Paul Sartre Nick Zogone
61
Summary
Marc is talking to his friend Yvan about their mutual friend Serge, who has bought a painting that Marc considers to be shit. Marc has been telling Yvan about the painting. Yvan doesn‟t understand why it‟s a big deal. Marc trie s to convince Yvan of the seriousness of this painting.
Jeffrey is going insane and explains to his classmates and himself there is no afterlife or reason for life Silvio explains what women really want trying to prove to his friend that he is, in fact, a dominant male. Biff and Willy start to have an argument with each other, with Biff telling the truth about his life so far. Fat Camp- Camper discussing girls and troubles with weight Javier finds his failure-of-a-father drunk in the snow, and, while annoyed, tries to get him to pick himself up. After years of being imprisoned, Sigismund finally meets another person and begs for company Awkward jerk finally showing his friendship for Bob Jody and Carl have been friends for several years. J ody still feels like he doesn‟t really know who Carl is, especially since he doesn‟t e ven know his occupation. Carl tells a story to convince Jody that it‟s better not to rea lly know people.
Mr. Marmalade returns to Lucy after rehab hoping that she will take him back and forgive him. Guy has been is hell coexisting with two other insufferable people and realized that Hell is living forever with people
Oklahoma One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Rodgers and Hammerstein Dale Wasserman
Only Kidding! People in the Wind Pictures on the Internet Reasons to be Pretty
Jim Geoghan William Inge Daniel Guyton Neil Labute
Jerry Drunk Christian
20‟s20‟s-30‟s 30‟s30‟s-40‟s 16-17
Greg
20s
Shape of Things
Neil Labute
Adam
Shape of Things
Neil Labute
Adam
Shape of Things
Neil Labute
Adam
This is our Youth
Kenneth Lonergan Allan Havis Brooke Berman Clark Gesner
Dennis
early-mid 20s early-mid 20s early-mid 20s 20
19
Nick Ian
16-19 20‟s
53 Pg. 63
Attractive Movie Star- Condemning his judgemental girlfriend
Schroeder
16-29
Act 2
Schroeder finally lets out how annoyed he is with Lucy‟s crabbiness.
The Tutor Wonderland You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Jud Fry
27-40
Act 2
Harding
40-45
Act 1 “Why, see here, my friend…” Act I Scene I
Jud tells Laury what he thinks she thinks of him, and that is being worthless and unloving. R. P. McMurphy has just been committed to a mental hospital. The head nurse is torturing the patients by making them dig into and judge each other‟s lives. Harding explains why none of the patients do anything to fight it. Comedian- Driven speech about wanting success Learned Drunk discussing his addiction and lost love Christian emailed pictures of his, now deceased, girlfriend and attempts to justify the action in his mind to alleviate alleviate guilt After a violent run in with his ex-girlfriend ex-girlfriend Stephanie (who's on a date), Greg tells her how much she will regret breaking up with him. Adam tries to talk his way out of a sticky situation with his new girlfriend, Evelyn by professing his love for her, but he accidentally goes too far. After discovering that he was just a project for her art class, Adam tells Evelyn what he thinks of the finished product. Adam tries to talk his way out of a sticky situation with his new girlfriend, Evelyn by professing his love for her, but he accidentally goes too far.
CLASSICAL MONOLOGUES
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano
35-45
Cyrano was insulted and he ridicules his aggressor with well witted and performed words until his adversary admits defeat
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Mark Antony
20-30
Julius Caesar is murdered and Mark Antony speaks to gain support for Caesar despite his apparent stance
Les Miserables
Clau Claudede-
Mari Marius us
16-1 16-19 9
A revol revolut utio ion n is brewi brewing ng whil whilee Mari Marius us stirs stirs the the crow crowd d to aid aid in his his
Love’s Labour Labour ’ ’ s Lost Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale
Michel Schönberg William Shakespeare
revolutionary actions Berowne
20-25
Shakespeare
Proteus
20s
Shakespeare
Florizel
20s
Act 4 Scene 3 “‟Tis more than need…”
Act IV Scene IV
Berowne and two other lords, along with their king have sworn off women in favor of study. They have all fallen in love with visiting ladies. In this speech he rationalizes their giving up on their oaths for love. Proteus battles with his affections for his best friend's girl, then finally concocts his plan to steal her away. Prince talking to his peasant lover, encouraging her of his love
Overdone Monologues ALBEE/Zoo Story/1959/JERRY/Jerry and the dog ANDERSON/I Never Sang for my Father/1967/GENE/That night I left my father‟s house ANDERSON/I Never Sang for my Father/ALL OTHERS ANDERSON/Tea and Sympathy/1953/Tom Sympathy/1953/Tom BAITZ/Substance of Fire/1992/MARTIN/I spent most of my 16th year getting chemotherapy BAITZ/Substance of Fire/1992/MARTIN/Publish Hustler or publish Proust BOGOSIAN/Suburbia/1994/JEFF/about BOGOSIAN/Suburbia/1994/JEFF /about moving to New York City CRISTOFER/Shadow Box/1977/MARK/We're Box/1 977/MARK/We're dying here lady… CRISTOFER/Shadow Box/1977/MARK/When Box/19 77/MARK/When I met Brian… CRISTOFER/Lady and the Clarinet/1989/JACK/Saw himself swimming in the toilet bowl in the commercial DAVIS/Mass Appeal/1981/MARK/Dead goldfish speech DURANG/The Actor's Nightmare/1981/GEORGE SPELVIN/Any of it
DURANG/Baby with the Bathwater/1983/DAISY/…realized B athwater/1983/DAISY/…realized I looked more like a boy tha n a girl, mother gasses herself DURANG/Laughing Wild/1987/MAN/Tunafish monologue DURANG/The Marriage of Bette & Boo/1973/ALL FEIFFER/Feiffer‟s FEIFFER/Feiffer‟s People/1968/ALL FEIFFER/Hold Me!/1977/ALL GESNER/LIPPA/You‟re GESNER/LIPPA/You‟ re a Good Man Charlie Brown/ALL GREENBERG/The American Plan/1990/NICK/I‟m Plan/1990/NICK/I‟m a rambling wreck GREENBERG/Take Me Out/2002/MASON/Baseball convert speech GREENBERG/Three Days of Rain/1998/Walker/ALL GUARE/House of Blue Leaves/1986/Ronnie/ALL GUARE/Six Degrees of Separation/1990/RICK/ Rainbow Room night GUIRGIS/Jesus Hopped the A Train/2001/ALL HOROVITZ/It's Called the Sugar Plum/1968/ZUCKERMAN/Stru Plum/1968/ZUCKERMAN/Strudel-dee del-dee HOROWITZ/It‟s Called the Sugar plum/1968/ZUCKERMAN/Cellar door IIZUKA/Aloha Say the Pretty Girls/1999/ALL JOHNSON/Brilliant Traces/1988/HENRY HARRY/ALL KORDER/Boys‟ Life/1988/ALL KORDER/Search and Destroy/1992/RON/ Baseball bat night at Shea stadium KRAMER/Wall of Water/1998/ALL LABUTE/Fat Pig/2004/ALL
LABUTE/Shape of Things/2002/Monologue at end about “This isn‟t art” LONERGAN/This is Our Youth/1996/ALL LONERGAN/Lobby Hero/2001/ALL MAMET/American Buffalo/1992/TEACH/ALL MAMET/Glengarry Glen Ross/1983/ROMA/ALL MAMET/Lakeboat/1970/ALL MAMET/Sexual Perversity in Chicago/1974/BERNIE/Girl in the flak suit speech MARGULIES/Dinner with Friends/1998/ALL MARTIN/Jack and Jill/1996/JACK/Nice, right? McCLURE/Lone Star/1980/ALL MEE/Big Love/1999/Giuliano and Nikos monologues PAPE/Say Goodnight Gracie/JERRY/Chunky turkey soup speech RABE/Hurlyburly/1984/ALL RAPP/Red Light Winter/2005/ALL RIDLEY/The Pitchfork Disney/1991/PRESLEY/Frying the little green snake RUDNICK/I Hate Hamlet/1991/ANDR EW/Acting EW/Acting „To be or not to be‟ SHAFFER/Equus/1973/ALAN/ALL SHANLEY/Danny and the Deep Blue Sea/1983/DANNY/ALL SHANLEY/Italian-American Reconciliation/1989/ALL SHANLEY/Beggars in the House of Plenty/1991/JOHN/ALL
SHEPARD/A Lie of the mind/1985/JAKE/She was going to these goddamn rehearsals every day SHERMAN/Sophistry/1993/ALL SHERMAN/Women and Wallace/1996/WALLACE/ALL SILVER/Fr ee ee Will and Wanton Lust/1994/PHILIP/I don‟t don‟ t find my sex organs attractive SILVER/Raised in Captivity/1995/SEBASTIAN/Mr. Giggles the Clown SIMON/Biloxi Blues/1984/EUGENE/I Blues/19 84/EUGENE/I was in the latrine… SIMON/Any/Virtually any young man‟s monologue from Neil Simon‟s m ajor plays SONDHEIM/Assassins/1990/SAM BYCK/Speech to Leonard Bernstein about hijacking airplane STOPPARD/Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead/1966/ROSENCRANTZ/Did you ever i magine yourself lying in a box… TAYLOR & BOLOGNA/Lovers and Other Strangers/1968/ALL TESICH/Division Street/1980/ALL MEN'S/(orgasm, boat people, etc.) WELLER/Loose Ends/1979/PAUL/Happy Birthday. Birthday. Do you like it? (abortion speech) WILLIAMS/The Glass Menagerie/1944/TOM/ALL WILSON/Burn This/1987/PALE/1st Monologue WILSON/Fifth of July/1980/ALL
Overdone Shakespeare As You Like It/ORLANDO/ As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion As You Like It/JAQUES/All It/ JAQUES/All the world‟s a stage Hamlet/HAMLET/To be or not to be
Hamlet/HAMLET/O what a rogue and peasant slave am I Hamlet/HAMLET/Speak the speech Hamlet/HAMLET/Alas poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio Henry IV Pt 1/HOTSPUR/My liege I did deny no prisoners Henry V/CHORUS/All prologues Henry V/Henry/Once more into the breach dear friends once more Henry V/Henry/This day is called the feast of Crispian Julius Caesar/ANTONY/Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears King Lear/EDMUND/Thou, Nature, art my goddess Macbeth/MACBETH/If it were done when w hen „tis done, then „twere well Macbeth/MACBETH/Is this a dagger I see before me Macbeth/MACBETH/Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Measure for Measure/ANGELO/Who will believe thee Isabel A Midsummer Night‟s Dream/PUCK/ My mistress with mistress with a monster is in love Othello/IAGO/Thus do I ever make my fool, my purse Othello/IAGO/And what‟s he then that says I play the villain? Richard III/RICHARD/Now is the winter of our discontent Romeo and Juliet/MERCUTIO/Then I see Queen Mab hath been with you Romeo and Juliet/ROMEO/But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? Twelfth Night/SEBASTIAN/This is the air, that is the glorious sun
Two Gentlemen of Verona/LAUNCE/When a man‟s m an‟s servant shall play the cur Two Gentlemen of Verona/PROTEUS/Even as one heat another heat expels
