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9 One-Minute Female Monologues Dealing with Grief

Written by Ashleigh Gardner

August 29, 2017

Ladies, are you searching for a one-minute dramatic monologue for your next audition? We’ve got nine from our collection that deal with grief, sorrow, and loss. Check them out below.

A monologue from Fizzy by Crystal Skillman

(Female, Dramatic, 20s – 30s)
Tina’s dog, Fizzy (played by an actor), has just returned from the afterlife. He’s managed to start speaking English and asks Tina to give him a proper funeral. As Tina holds the canister that contains his ashes, Fizzy lights a candle to prepare for his funeral. He brings over his old bowl from the corner of the room. He pours some rum in it. Tina, still clutching his ashes, remembers the last day she took him to the vet and the subsequent heartache that followed his death. She is broken, and she laments the ironic events that happened around her as her closest and dearest friend moved on into the afterlife.

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A monologue from Lost Angel by Ricardo-Soltero Brown

(Female, Dramatic, Teens 20s)
Ed is visited by the memory of his daughter Kristen who airs her grievances while he tries to drown her out by playing his trumpet.

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A monologue from For My Silent Sisters by Tara Meddaugh

(Female, Dramatic, Teens)
Marta is a Romanian teenager who has been lured away from home with the promise of a job as a translator in England. Instead, she is brought to a “training facility” for girls to be sent to brothels in Europe.

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A monologue from The Sleeping World by Crystal Skillman

(Female, Dramatic, 20s – 30s)
Evening, the light is fading. The falling snow is a steady stream of white outside the window. The coldest it’s been. The scripts are scattered about on the floor. Music still plays softly, most likely Green Day now. Various plates of half devoured frozen meals are lying about, beer bottles. Sam, Angie, Luke and Tom piled in various sweaters, jackets and blankets are huddled together in a circle drinking beer. Sam painfully recounts Peter’s passing, whose life was cut too short. She went to his funeral, an event none of the other three attended. She describes the funeral and the burial in great detail, along with her experience at the grave during and after he was laid in the ground. Her sorrow compounds on itself the longer she speaks, and she apologizes for secluding herself during a time when he (and she) needed someone the most.

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A monologue from Holy Crab! by Zhu Yi

(Female, Dramatic, 20s)
Xia, a Chinese girl who came to the US for Master program on Chinese History, was convinced by her brother to quit school and work for his black market business illegally. The night before Xia’s deportation, she visits her brother in prison.

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A monologue from Sex & Death in London by Crystal Skillman

(Female, Dramatic, Teens)
London. A pub in Clapham Junction, London. Outside, the London riots are raging. Two teenage girls, Tink and Cyn, have broken into the pub and are waiting on their friend, Terra. Henry is the father of Terra, who has gone missing amid the riots. He has snooped on Terra’s open laptop at home and discovered Terra’s plans to escape to the pub with Tink and Cyn. This monologue lies just before the end of the play. Henry is about to leave to find his daughter when Tink stops him. It is the most real and honest thing she has said for the entire length of the play. It’s a side of her we haven’t seen before – the real her. She explains what she saw down at the bridge on the lake. Terra, pregnant, and Alex, Terra’s boyfriend, were talking when Terra jumped into the lake and drowned.

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A monologue from The Ninth Train by Jane Jeffries and Jim Jeffries

(Female, Dramatic, Teens)
Sixteen-year-old Eva quietly tells her older sister, Analise, about a time when she went to the bakery and first met Merek, the baker’s son. She had tried to get a refund for a day-old roll and when, he wouldn’t allow it, she threw it at him and hit him in the face. When she went back another day to buy bread, he had a complimentary note hidden in the bottom of the bag. That is how their friendship began.

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A monologue from The Telling Trilogy by Crystal Skillman

(Female, Dramatic, Late Teens – 20s)
This monologue is from “The Telling,” the first short play in The Telling Trilogy. The Daverns Inn is up for sale, and it must be sold. In the basement of the inn, a small sealed box sits in the center of the room. Vic, the sister who has come back, has returned by request of her sister, Ty. Ty and Vic told stories to each other when they were small girls; they also had a penchant for setting traps for each other. In this monologue, Ty tells Vic about a dream Ty had, and Vic tries not to listen because the image is much, much too real. In the dream, Ty tries to get Vic to go down to the basement, a place they were never supposed to go. But when Ty runs down the stairs first, she tumbles down the staircase and finds herself immobile in a pool of her own blood.

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