Great Theater monologue

Question

Ok, I am trying out for a play and need a really good, powerfull, dramatic, one minute, monologue. It could be a theater one, or just a regular one. make sure it isnt really tough to learn cause i have to try out on tuesday.

please help!

thanks

jake

Answer 1

Hey Jake:  Here's a monologue to try.  It's from a play called OHIO, by Nick Zagone.  Take your time with it and take a few pauses.  Imagine that you are talking to a woman named Catherine, whose nickname is Cat.

They are together in bed in the play, but you can perform it as though you are sitting at the breakfast table or in the living room of Zach's  apartment. This may take you about 20 seconds to just say it, but if you really visualize it, you should be able to make it go even up to 5 minutes.  Just pace yourself and breathe, you'll do fine.  Best of luck in your audition!  Break a Leg!!!

ZACH: I knew this professor in college, a physicist and he said there are these things called “wormholes in time.” Holes that can theoretically transport people to their other realities. Ya see, somewhere in another reality we have made the other decisions… the choices we didn’t make! In another reality this man is a billionaire… you are not married to your husband… and I’m living in Ohio! The other possibility lives on with every decision we make. In other realities we are on those paths not taken in our lives. When you think about what you could be doing, you are doing it! Right now! Right now, we can continue in this reality or start a new one based on this decision! And if we start a new reality, don’t feel bad because you will always be married to your husband in another one. It’s so easy to change-- just change your mind. Somewhere I’m a bum and this man is giving me a quarter. Somewhere right now you are at home in bed with your husband and I’m drinking myself to sleep in front of the TV. We have created a whole new reality here Cat! We decided… just to talk to each other, but in the process we have created for ourselves a whole new life-- possibly. [Holds up KENO ticket.] We’re at a wormhole Catherine. Would you like to jump in with me?