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10 New Dramatic Male Monologues for Teens<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by\u00a0Tiffany Weagly-Wilkie<\/p>\n

May 4, 2017<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Need a monologue for an upcoming audition or competition? We’ve chosen ten from our collection that feature young men experiencing a crisis, from fighting with their parents to having trouble in school.<\/span><\/p>\n

A monologue from Why Darkness Seems So Light\u00a0<\/em>by Helen Frost and Harvey Cocks<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, 14-18, Suicide)<\/strong>
\nNathan is what most people would call a good kid. He comes from a troubled home, yet maintains. a close relationship with his brother and mom. Unfortunately, his stepfather, Ralph, runs their household with physical force. Nathan\u2019s last gift from his real father was his dog, Scarlett, but. Ralph killed Scarlett for barking too much. Nathan is beside himself with grief, totally heartbroken.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from Like Totally the Breakfast Club <\/em>by Rob Ward<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic 14-18, Bullying)<\/strong>
\nAfter a scuff with a bully, Frankie\u2019s backpack is overturned and to everyone\u2019s surprise, a gun falls onto the floor.\u00a0 Every student is scared, confused, and only after realizing it is a bebe gun does the fear dissipate.\u00a0 Frankie then divulges the story of his bi-polar mother\u2014she is always on edge and unable to take care of herself in her bi-polar bouts. Frankie had taken the gun out of her possession that morning in order to protect her from herself, putting it in his bag and running out the door to make it to school on time.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from Bully Dance <\/em>by David Valdes Greenwood<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Ages 18-22, Obsession)<\/strong>
\nTravis believes in the power of the internet.\u00a0 After the shootings and after his death, Alice, Tammy, Cora, and Nola are going through his blog, finding strange links and lists of things that Travis, in a rather twisted way, thinks are quite funny.\u00a0 This monologue is a list; first of likes, then of dislikes.\u00a0 Cora (Travis\u2019 mother) insists that Travis was a nice boy, a boy who did the \u201cbully dance\u201d\u2014whenever he saw younger kids getting bullied, he would start dancing an awkward flailing dance to confuse and disarm the bullies.\u00a0 In this monologue, he begins this strange and unusual dance while he becomes manic about the things in his life that led to his decision to take matters into his own hands with vigilante justice.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from War of the Buttons <\/em>by Jonathan Dorf<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Ages 14-18, Death)<\/strong>
\nWhen the local ice cream factory goes under and sends a small town to the brink of ruin, its children do the only thing they can: they fight, launching a button-cutting war against the students of the prep school that is gradually buying up their parents’ property. But when Charlie, leader of the townies, gets abandoned by his work-seeking parents and has to hide out in the abandoned factory, will he and his friends find a way to save the day, or will all\u2014including Charlie himself\u2014be lost? Teenaged Siggy, who escaped from Bosnia (or wherever is suitable), tells the story of his escape in a moment out of real time as he and his American friends prepare to go on a “raid” against their rivals from the local prep school.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from About a Goth <\/em>by Tom Wells<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Ages 14-18, Depression)<\/strong>
\nA young man who volunteers in old people’s homes suffers paroxysms of love and hate for the residents. The play, narrated by Nick in the present tense, traces the events of a life-changing day. It is intercut with recollections from the past. Nick is gay. He has feelings for Greg, and later on in the play it seems as though these may be reciprocated. Nick has a love of the Existentialists. You might like to read Camus\u2019 The <\/em>Stranger, if you have not already done so. By the end of the day, Nick is no longer a goth.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from Born and Raised\u00a0<\/em>by Kristine M. Reyes<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Ages 18-22, Adoption)<\/strong>
\nPaul has recently found out that he\u2019s Korean, after mistakenly being raised to believe he was Chinese by his adoptive white parents. He was a top student in his Chinese language class, but this news has caused an identity crisis, as well as a rift between him and his father. Depressed and confused, he has stopped attending class. Jessica, his friend at Chinese school and a fellow transracial Asian adoptee, has grown concerned about his absence and has dragged their classmate Will along to check on him. Will, a third generation Chinese American and a typical teenage guy, is unconcerned about issues of adoption or identity, and not entirely sympathetic to Paul\u2019s dilemma.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from Voices from the Mosque\u00a0<\/em>by Alecky Blythe<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Ages 14-18, September 11th<\/sup>)<\/strong>
\nA London mosque. The play is made up of four short monologues in which three Muslim men talk about the aftereffects of 9\/11. The script has been created from real-life interviews, which were then edited. The play is one of twenty that make up a larger performance piece called Decade.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from Before it Rains <\/em>by Katherine Chandler<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Ages 14-18, Child Abuse)<\/strong>
\nSet on a run-down council estate in Cardiff, the play tells the story of Michael, who suffers from Asperger\u2019s syndrome, and his single-parent mother Gloria, who struggles to cope. When Carl and his family arrive on the estate they set about intimidating fellow residents. Carl is almost feral. His elder brother is violent and their father sadistic. Carl befriends Michael and encourages him in antisocial behaviour. Carl and his brother enjoy setting rat traps in the woods. But then they turn their attentions to killing people\u2019s pets, the police are called out. Their father\u2019s response is to beat them. Here in the play, Carl has run away from home and is hiding in the woods following a particularly vicious attack by the father on Carl\u2019s brother, \u2018our Kid\u2019. Carl is both violent and vulnerable.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from Holes in the Skin <\/em>by \u00a0Robert Holman<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Ages 14-18, Violence)<\/strong>
\nHazel and Kery’s house on a council estate in Stokesley. Kerry and her mother Hazel have moved to a house on a council estate a few doors down from where Lee and his brother Ewan live. Kerry has asked Ewan to beat up her mother\u2019s new boyfriend Dennis, whom she hates. Ewan does so but gets carried away, and Dennis dies in the attack. As soon as Lee finds out, he rushes to Kerry\u2019s house looking for Ewan. He is scared that the police will come looking for him and Ewan. Lee is the first person the police suspect if there is trouble. He has been in a young offenders\u2019 prison. Kerry asks him what it was he did. The speech that follows is his response to her.<\/p>\n

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A monologue from Little Baby Jesus <\/em>by Arinze Kene<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Ages 14-18, Divorce)<\/strong>
\nInner-city London. Exact location is unspecified. Perhaps you imagine him talking to us in his bedroom, a street or the park. The play, a series of interconnected monologues, describes the point at which three teenagers, Kehinde, Joanne and Rugrat, begin to grow up. They speak directly to the audience, and in this, Kehinde\u2019s first monologue, he introduces himself. He is a black teenager who is very mature and sensible for his age.<\/p>\n

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