A
monologue is a speech made by one person
speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly
addressing a reader, audience or character.
HOW TO CHOOSE A GOOD MONOLOGUE:
Choose something that you can relate and connect
to in some way. Never pick a monologue because
someone else performed well in it. It has to be
personal.
You
must understand the whole scene; where are you?
What time of day is it? Who are you? And most
important to whom do you speak to?
You
must have a clear objective. What is your
agenda? Always rise the stakes, even if it is
not in the scene.
Don't choose a piece longer than five minutes or
shorter than a minute and a half. A good length
is 2 -3 minutes.
Always be aware that your piece has a beginning,
a middle, and an end.
MONOLOGUE SAMPLE
THE
VEGETARIAN
Gayle
The other day, my mom was cleaning a
chicken....you know, the dead kind - the
kind you eat. Notice, I say "you".
That's because I don't eat dead chickens
anymore. I don't eat live ones either,
of course. I just don't eat chickens.
Not after seeing a perfectly shaped
chicken just sitting on the kitchen
counter getting its last tiny feathers
plucked out, just before getting cooked,
cut up into pieces and eaten for dinner.
It's easy when it's chicken salad - or
even chicken cutlets - if you just never
think about where it came from. But, I
mean there it was - it looked just like
a chicken - just like the kind you see
on a farm or in a petting zoo. Except
this one was bald. Bald and dead. I just
decided right then and there that I
couldn't do it. I told my mom "starting
right now, I'm a vegetarian!" Without so
much as a blink she said "So, should I
make you some spinach for dinner
tonight?" "What do you mean?" I asked
her. It had never occurred to me that
vegetarians actually eat vegetables.
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