<p>Hello everyone :) I started my search for Theatre Schools and narrowed my list down! None of my schools require classical monologues so I was wondering where is a good place to find two contrasting contemporary monologues? Btw I'm a male.</p>
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<p>I recommend doing a search of posts on this this forum using the search term “monologues.” There are many, many posts on the subject.</p>
<p>Thanks c: </p>
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<p>Here would be my suggestions, Devonte.</p>
<p>Think about who are your favorite living playwrights. Then go and read EVERYTHING those folks have written. (Okay, I’m exaggerating when I say “everything”, but read a lot of things, especially the lesser known works of your favorite playwrights). Find good monologues from the plays you are reading. Then doublecheck that the monologues you have chosen are not “overused monologues”. (This is why taking your monologue from a lesser known play is a good idea)</p>
<p>Remember that you are not a child anymore. You should be looking at characters who are young adults, even a few years older than you. Since you are male, you should be looking at characters who are male. (As a male, you are going to find many more roles (and monologues) than females do. You are also going to find less competition at auditions, because you will only be competing with the other males, not with the females. There is almost always fewer males, and more male roles)</p>
<p>Remember that monologues aren’t as long as you think. The instructions will give you a maximum time limit (often this is three minutes) and you MUST NOT exceed this time. So for two monologues, you are looking at about a minute and a half each. Which is really quite short.</p>
<p>Find monologues that stand on their own–that the auditors will understand even if they haven’t read the play, and that you can just go in and do without having to explain it first. You want to find monologues that actually allow you to play a character, best of all are monologues which have an “inner journey” for the character.</p>
<p>Avoid monologues that only use the emotions of anger and sarcasm. Those are “easy” emotions to play, and the auditors won’t be impressed. Avoid monologues that rely completely on “shock” value, by virtue of subject matter or language, that is there for no reason other than to make the listeners uncomfortable.</p>
<p>Be sure that your two monologues are contrasting. Use this opportunity to show the auditors that you can play a very wide range of characters. One should be comic (i.e. it makes people laugh), the other should be dramatic (i.e. it makes people cry or think or something other than laugh). But also try to find monologues that contrast in other ways. Like having one monologue be from a well-educated person (eg a doctor, lawyer, professor, or similar), the other from a more streetwise person (eg a laborer, a rough criminal, or similar).</p>
<p>If you can’t afford to buy lots of plays, use your local library, and make use of their interlibrary loans if they don’t have enough plays.</p>
<p>Everything in this post is really just guidelines, and the right person can succesfully break one or more of the “rules” that I have listed here. But of course I have no way of knowing whether you are that person.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>
<p>Wow THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Very Helpful c: </p>
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