{"id":1560,"date":"2016-11-07T22:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T22:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2020-06-19T20:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:09:41","slug":"10-monologues-from-male-characters-fathers-brothers-and-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/10-monologues-from-male-characters-fathers-brothers-and-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Monologues from Male Characters: Fathers, Brothers, and Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Monologues from Male Characters: Fathers, Brothers, and Sons<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Ashleigh Gardner<\/p>\n

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

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Gentlemen, are you looking for a monologue<\/span><\/a> from a character who holds the familial title of “father”, “brother”, or “son”? We’ve got 10 monologues from male characters who are trying desperately to\u00a0either connect with family members or come to terms with who they are as fathers, brothers, or sons.<\/p>\n

A monologue from\u00a0San Francisco Scarecrows\u00a0<\/em>by Kevin L\u014dttes<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, Teens – 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Driving from the Midwest, Ozzie travels with his friend Hopper to San Francisco to search for Ozzie\u2019s estranged father. Ozzie finds his father and is set to meet him. Ozzie leaves Hopper at the hotel room while he goes to meet his father for the first time. \u00a0When Ozzie returns to the hotel room without his father, he explains to his friend what happened — his father didn\u2019t recognize him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from Sex & Death in London<\/em> by Crystal Skillman<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, Teens)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>London. A pub in Clapham Junction. 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\u2019s open laptop at home and discovered Terra\u2019s plans to escape to the pub with Tink and Cyn. ALEX, Terra’s 16 year-old boyfriend, has just come into the bar with food and drink. He encounters Henry, who keeps asking where Terra is, but Alex won’t tell him. Instead, Alex expounds on the riots outside and mocks Henry’s lack of education. Alex tells Henry that he has plans for Terra and their unborn child to live a happy life, but Terra is terrified of ending up like her father: an uneducated parent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from The Sunken Living Room<\/em> by David Caudle<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, Teens – 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Chip\u2019s girlfriend Tammy has just apologized for breaking a very expensive ashtray and is helping Wade, Chip\u2019s younger brother, clean up the mess. She gives him a hard time for being so well-behaved, but she still treats him with more kindness than his parents or his brother do. In this monologue, Wade tells Tammy his favorite memory of his older sister Allison before she ran away, and reveals that Tammy is the first person to show him any respect or kindness since Allison\u2019s departure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from The Sunken Living Room<\/em> by David Caudle<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, 20s – 30s)<\/strong>
\nChip\u2019s father recently paid for Tammy\u2019s abortion, and in a phone call told his son that he should never be a father. Chip, high on cocaine and insulted by his father\u2019s hypocrisy, has decided to leave home after this phone call and has ransacked and destroyed the house looking for money. Wade, Chip\u2019s younger brother, has hidden Chip\u2019s car keys during this destructive episode because Chip is entirely unfit to drive, and Chip reacts by choking him. At the last moment, he releases his grip on his brother and gives this cathartic monologue where he defends his right to be a father, and insists he would be a much better father than his own. (This monologue contains adult language.)<\/p>\n

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A monologue from\u00a0Jet Boy Jet Girl\u00a0<\/em>by Alex Kump<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, Teens – 20s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>In this scene Jacob visits his father\u2019s gravestone and talks to him about his new sexual relationship with Shane, a guy who uses him only for sex. Jacob doesn\u2019t know whether or not his father would have approved of his new relationship, but he knows his father would have listened. His trust in his father\u2019s patience and compassion reveals a strong father-son bond in the face of uncertainty, even if Jacob\u2019s father is dead.\u00a0(This monologue contains sexual situations.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from\u00a04 Edges\u00a0<\/em>by Crystal Skillman<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, 20s – 40s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Deep in the wooded mountains of an unrecognizable foreign country. A fire crackles in a small pit. The people of this community have an intense spiritual connection with nature, their ancestors, and each other, reaching so far as to include telepathy with the living and reincarnation.\u00a0Terrins, a member of the village where Palmer is visiting for her photo project, delivers this monologue to Palmer in the midst of telling her that he and his young wife, Loxy, cannot have children; they need a surrogate. Palmer is aghast at the prospect, having been pregnant before and gotten an abortion. But Loxy sees something in Palmer, and Terrins persuades Palmer to give in to her innermost desires to have a child and put a piece of herself in the world. (What Terrins does not mention in this monologue, but he knows, is that after he and Palmer have had sex, he will cut his own throat, and his spirit will be born into the unborn child that will inhabit Palmer’s womb. This is the price Terrins must pay to have a child.)<\/p>\n

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A monologue from\u00a0The Cuban Spring<\/em> by Vanessa Garcia<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, 20s – 30s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Siomara is the American-born daughter of Cuban parents who married an American named John. Their marriage has been struggling since Siomara neglected to tell John she was pregnant because of her hesitations concerning his poor relationship with his family. She has a loving and close-knit family and feels that since he has abandoned his, that she may not trust him to be a father. In this monologue, John is confessing to her that he has reached out to find his mother, and brings her both good and bad news.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from Burning the Old Man<\/em> by Kelly McCallister<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, 20s – 30s)<\/strong>
\nMarty is telling Bobby the truth about a fight he was in when he visited his father in Alaska several years ago. In this monologue, he admits that his father gave him money to sleep with a prostitute after his father pointed a gun at another man. He’s embarrassed that he has to explain this part of his relationship with his father to Bobby. (This monologue contains explicit language and talk of sexual situations.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monologue from The Memory Tax<\/em> by Chad Eschman<\/h4>\n
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(Dramatic, 20s – 30s)<\/strong>
\n<\/span>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\u00a0Cowbirds\u00a0<\/em>by DT Arcieri<\/h4>\n
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\n<\/span>Tommy, 25, has two degrees and a serious fascination with birding (bird watching, listening, studying). He believes he was an accident because he was born 15 years after his sister. He feels that his Mother, whom he cares for because of her blindness, resents him for that reason and also because his father passed away the day he was born. Because he never knew his father, he imagines him as a gentle, more open parent and often takes time alone to talk his imaginary body. In this monologue, he is telling his father about his new fascination with blind cave animals. This new interest may have come about since learning that his mother\u2019s blindness is familial and that he may inherit it. He expresses his need to go back to school for a P.h.D. so he can get a better job and care for his mother and sister, and then realizes that he can do none of this if he goes blind.<\/span><\/p>\n

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