{"id":1113,"date":"2016-09-09T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2020-01-20T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T16:34:54","slug":"10-male-monologues-from-characters-dealing-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/10-male-monologues-from-characters-dealing-with-death\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Male Monologues from Characters Dealing with Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Male Monologues from Characters Dealing with Death<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Ashleigh Gardner<\/p>\n

September 7, 2016<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Have you found your next monologue for competition and audition season? If not, we\u2019ve got you covered. Below are 10 monologues (5 comedic and 5 dramatic) from male characters who are dealing with death — coping however they can, whether through humor or sincere brutal honesty.<\/span><\/p>\n

A monologue from Friendlyville<\/i> by Kevin Drzakowski<\/h4>\n
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(Comedic – 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Friendlyville\u2019s Main Street. Friendlyville\u2019s reluctant clown, Giggles the Clown, has just turned up dead, apparently murdered. Jake Robertson, Friendlyville\u2019s florist, unexpectedly has the task of eulogizing Giggles thrust upon him during a speedy impromptu funeral. \u00a0At first, Jake struggles to find something meaningful to say about a clown who wasn\u2019t very good at making people laugh, but then Jake remembers a formative experience from Giggles\u2019s childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from Jupiter<\/i> by Gary Briston<\/h4>\n
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(Comedic – Teens, 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>In 2009 meteors struck the planet Jupiter. \u00a0Any one of these huge rocks could have wiped out our planet. Joe has been expelled from school for scaring the other kids with his concern about the sky and the \u201cbig honkin\u2019 rock\u201d he believes is headed towards the Earth. It\u2019s all he can think about, and even when his principal points at him and tells him to go home, Joe willingly and happily goes, all the time thinking on the destruction of Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from Scary, Scary Night<\/em> by E. Michael Lunsford<\/h4>\n
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(Comedic – 30s, 40s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Jeremy Hyde, a quirky funeral home owner, has just met Albert, a young man who (Jeremy thinks) wants to be a make-up artist. Albert is <\/span>really <\/span><\/i>an infiltrator for Nussbaum, a local serial killer. Nussbaum sends Albert to apply for the inside job of \u201cmake-up artist\u201d at the funeral home. Here, Jeremy, unaware of the ruse, encourages Albert, who prepares the corpse for showing at the funeral home, to pursue his dream of becoming a make-up artist. He is thrilled to have this opportunity to mentor a young person.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from Scary, Scary Night<\/em> by E. Michael Lunsford<\/h4>\n
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(Comedic – 20s, 30s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Nussbaum is the owner of House of Masks & Magic, a spooky Halloween store, but he also happens to be a part-time serial killer. Nussbaum discovers who took over his old family home where he \u201caccidentally\u201d blew up his parents 20 years earlier. The house was sold to Jeremy and Formalda who turned it into the town\u2019s creepiest funeral home and now delight in telling everybody about two resident ghosts who haunt every room. Nussbaum decides the funeral home is the perfect place to dispose of the body of his most recent victim…and wreak revenge on the Hydes whom he blames for the loss of his childhood home. Here, Nussbaum has bound and gagged Derek, the Hyde\u2019s son, and he petulantly and comically tells Derek all of the things he will do to take revenge upon Derek\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from The Ghost Moments<\/i> by Randy Wyatt<\/h4>\n
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(Comedic – Teens, 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>The characters in The Ghost Moments\u2014some young, some not-so-young, each from a very different walk of life\u2014exist in their own worlds, all of them hunting or being hunted. Some of their ghosts are literal: Matty tries to rid his sister’s apartment of a spirit that may or may not be there<\/span>. <\/span>Matty, surrounded by books and exorcism paraphernalia, has promised his sister that he\u2019ll exorcise whatever presence seems to be haunting her apartment, and in performing the exorcism, he speaks out loud to the ghost, producing a very awkward and funny, one-sided conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from Broadway or Bust<\/i> by Rosary O\u2019Neill<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic – 20s-30s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Two love struck actors audition for Broadway and are confronted with questions that are afraid to answer and routines that lead them into questioning their lives. The lights of Broadway illuminate this escapade into the audition process and the magical world of acting. Susan, Johnny\u2019s girlfriend, has just died of breast cancer, and he begs the doctors and nurses to let him in the room to see her. When inside, he speaks to her as if she was still living, and he tells her to keep holding on to her life and her dream.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from For My Silent Sisters<\/i> by Tara Meddaugh<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, Teens – 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Set in the countries of Cambodia, Romania, India and the United States, four teenagers struggle to escape the dark underworld of child sex trafficking. Abhay, an Indian boy living on the streets of Mumbai, finds employment at a brothel and must decide if the \u201cgood life\u201d is worth the atrocities. In this monologue, Abhay recalls his little sister\u2019s death from starvation and how he fought off dogs that were trying to take her corpse away. He finally gets one of her arms and buries it ceremonially with rice and flowers in a nearby courtyard.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from In Close Quarters<\/em> by Michael Wanzie<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, Teens – 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>American forces have just invaded Cambodia. Two young U.S. Army soldiers, PFC Matthew Dolan and PFC James Ivey find themselves trapped in a secret underground supply bunker. Until now, Ivey has had a very hard time coming to terms with the death of their young friend, Baker, in a firefight. Ivey is in denial until this moment when he begins to lament Baker\u2019s death. He recounts a moment in the trenches when Baker sat motionless in a depressive state. A firefight begins with the Viet Cong, and the platoon is moved backward, but Baker doesn\u2019t move. When they return to their post, Ivey finds Baker where he left him, dead and still holding his gun. (This monologue contains adults language.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from The Memory Tax<\/i> by Chad Eschman<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, Teens – 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>A young couple tries to build a future in a dystopian America, where memories are taken out of people’s minds and archived because there may not be a tomorrow. Jason confronts his father, who abandoned him and his mother when he was just a baby. He\u2019s come to ask for money, so that he and his pregnant girlfriend can try for a fresh start in the ravaged, post-apocalyptic America that his father helped create.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from The Simple Mind of Dillon Magee<\/i> by A.D. Hasselbring<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, Teens – 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Dillon is plunged into a state of shock after a violent car accident kills his father and leaves him unable to speak or interact due to the trauma. \u00a0A grad student named David uses a number of techniques to try and reach Dillon with no success. Dillon speaks about his accident and reveals what happened. He recounts the moments before and immediately after the crash, his thoughts while hanging upside down, and the way he felt once David brought him out of his catatonic state.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ashleigh Gardner<\/strong>\u00a0received her AA in Theatre\/Drama\/Dramatic Arts\u00a0from Valencia College and\u00a0her Bachelors Degree in English Literature and\u00a0Masters Degree in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies from\u00a0the University of Central Florida. She is a playwright and an actor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[470,301,272,453],"tags":[271,392,389,390,185,391,138,186,393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}