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Contrasting Combinations: Contemporary Monologues with Contrasting Types<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by\u00a0Ashleigh Gardner<\/p>\n

February 27, 2019<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Looking high and low for contrasting monologues for your next audition or competition? We\u2019ve gathered five pairs for women and five pairs for men to get you started! These contemporary monologue pairs focus on character differences: in love and out of love, zany and level-headed, tragically injured and heroically optimistic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Monologues for Women<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Hypocrites & Strippers<\/i> by Kim Yaged and Catholic School Girls<\/i> by Casey Kurtti<\/h4>\n
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Hypocrites & Strippers<\/i> by <\/strong>Kim Yaged<\/strong>
\n<\/span>New Jersey, Los Angeles, and lots of places in between. Jyl, 30ish, an overachiever who didn\u2019t quite blossom into fruition. She\u2019s ready to make something of her life, but her romantic proclivities keep getting in the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Catholic School Girls<\/i> by Casey Kurtti
\n<\/strong>It is a Monday in Sister Mary Lucille\u2019s second-grade class. Her students completed their First Communion the Saturday prior and she is beginning class with announcements and tasks but is distracted by a few students and their childish habits. In this monologue, she reprimands them (and their parents) with intrusive and presumptuous remarks and commands. Sister Mary Lucille has a wicked tongue and epitomizes the caricature of Catholic school teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mad Millie<\/i> by Olivia Briggs and Eggs On Ice<\/i> by Kristine M. Reyes<\/h4>\n
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Mad Millie<\/i> by <\/strong>Olivia Briggs<\/strong>
\n<\/span>A darkly satirical one-woman play, \u201cMad Millie\u201d features Mrs. Singleton, a self-professed perfect, American housewife with some pretty high ideals. Now imprisoned for the murder of a \u201crebellious\u201d young woman who moved into her gated community, Mrs. Singleton spends her days recounting what she told the police on her final day of freedom. Fed up with the police officer\u2019s accusations, Mrs. Singleton decides to let him have it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Eggs On Ice<\/i> by Kr<\/strong>istine M. Reyes<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Denise, the top sales rep at the premier egg freezing clinic, Eggs on Ice, hosts a fabulous promotional party in hopes of enticing young, professional women to freeze and store their eggs with the clinic. She can do this sales pitch in her sleep, and truly believes that she\u2019s helping the current generation of working women \u201chave it all\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Kindness Of Enemies<\/i> by Glenn Alterman and Water Down<\/i> by Debbie Lamedman<\/h4>\n
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The Kindness Of Enemies<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>Glenn Alterman
\n<\/b>After SHE meets HE at Happy Hour at a bar, they go back to his place and have sex. She is absolutely sure that HE is the right man for her. She excitedly shares her feelings of what she believes their new life together will be like.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Water Down<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>Debbie Lamedman
\n<\/b>Tess and Max have been friends since they were little children. \u00a0They talk to each other about everything. It is strictly a platonic friendship and always has been. \u00a0Now Tess, thinking she may be in love with another girl, looks to Max for his advice and opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Scream<\/i> by DT Arcieri and The Fainting Couch<\/i> by Jill Elaine Hughes<\/h4>\n
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The Scream<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>DT Arcieri
\n<\/b>Fern, briefly described as \u201cartsy\u201d, is pretty, dressed in black and very animately speaking to the audience about her optimism and her job as the curator of an art gallery in the West Village.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Fainting Couch<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>Jill Elaine Hughes
\n<\/b>Julia, a poor, depressed young woman without health insurance seeks free help under the care of Dr. Nukulye, an Anglo-Kenyan psychiatry resident seeking certification in the U.S. \u00a0This isn\u2019t Julia\u2019s first round in therapy, but to this point nothing seems to have worked. Her past dysfunctional sexual relationships haunt her through the guise of an \u201cEveryman Lover\u201d who lives mostly in Julia\u2019s mind. \u00a0Unfortunately, Dr. Nukulye\u2019s insistence that she has repressed homosexuality leads to his suggestion that she seek the help of a surrogate female sex partner. What Julia doesn\u2019t know is that Dr. Nukulye has a hidden agenda driven by his own deviant sexual fetishes that have gotten him into trouble in the professional world. JULIA describes how depression feels to the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Futurama<\/i> by Samantha Charlip and Pensacola<\/i> by David-Matthew Barnes<\/h4>\n
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Futurama<\/i><\/b> by Samantha Charlip
\n<\/b>April, 22, a disgruntled employee of the hokey theme park Futurama, is in the futuristic model house with Brian, 44, a life coach and public speaker who has taken a liking to April. As Brian tries to get April to open up to him, he tells her to ask him the most nagging question she\u2019s got on her mind. She asks, \u201cHow do you stop time?\u201d, a veiled reference to her relationship with her now deceased ex-boyfriend Reggie. She wishes she could go back to an earlier time when Reggie was still alive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pensacola<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>David-Matthew Barnes
\n<\/b>Known for changing her career plans at least once a week, eighteen-year-old Marie tells her date about a new strategy she has. Marie is very Southern and full of energy and charm.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Monologues for Men<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Solitaire<\/i> by Rosary O’Neill and Milk Like Sugar<\/i> by Kirsten Greenidge<\/h4>\n
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Solitaire<\/i> by Rosary O’Neill
\n<\/strong>The Mississippi Gulf Coast estate of Irene Dubbonet is an unforgettable place to visit, but who would want to live there? All of her relatives, who hope to inherit it! This is a play about manipulation and what happens to family members’ dreams when the odds are stacked against them. A cloud of doom hangs over Serenity Manor, until at last, virtue triumphs. Irene’s son, the artist, Rooster, deeply anxious to prove himself, connives a scheme to help his “down and out” brother-in-law seize the estate. Funny situations sparked by witty lines bring the audience into an intriguing overview of topsy-turvy privileged life today. Rooster defies his mother for humiliating him for being an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Milk Like Sugar<\/i> by Kirsten Greenidge
\n<\/strong>Annie has gotten a tattoo under the influence of her posse for her 16th Birthday. She has now gone back to enlarge the tattoo to cross her stomach. The artist, ANTWOINE, begins to warn her of the damages it may do. With entrance, he continues to explain how rare the occasion is and delves into the power of being an artist and the effect it has on people\u2019s lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Future Anxiety<\/i> by Laurel Haines and The Christmas Present<\/i> by Guy Picot<\/h4>\n
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Future Anxiety<\/i><\/b> by Laurel Haines
\n<\/b>This scene is called, \u201cWesley Makes a Video.\u201d Wesley is a sickly but cheerful young man. He is sitting in a chair in front of a camera. He is preparing his dating video. He coughs from time to time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Christmas Present<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>Guy Picot
\n<\/b>Colin is disappointed with the call-girl who has turned up at his hotel, while she is in the bathroom his mind wanders to the fantasy he had been looking forward to. He is honest and open with “Salome”, the beautiful girl who hangs on his every word and likes him for what he is.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Watson: The Last Great Tale Of The Legendary Sherlock Holmes<\/i> by Jaime Robledo and A List Of Some Shit I\u2019ve Killed<\/i> by Matt Barbot<\/h4>\n
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Watson: The Last Great Tale Of The Legendary Sherlock Holmes<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>Jaime Robledo
\n<\/b>On the Cliffs of Dover, Professor Moriarty confronts his paranoid and drugged out stalker Sherlock Holmes who has accused him of a rash of crimes throughout London. Holmes picks up on the scent of Moriarty\u2019s tobacco and through the powers of deduction places Moriarty at the scene of an assassination attempt, putting the lie to his alibi.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A List Of Some Shit I\u2019ve Killed<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>Matt Barbot
\n<\/b>HERACLES, perfect and whole, stands on a hill, holding his bow. Cocky and unappreciative, he shows off his prize from the gods \u2013 a prize he\u2019s obtained after killing hundreds and hundreds of people and mythological creatures.<\/span><\/p>\n

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New<\/i> by Crystal Skillman and The Ghost Moments<\/i> by Randy Wyatt<\/h4>\n
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New<\/i><\/b> by Crystal Skillman
\n<\/b>In this melodramatic monologue, MARCUS, the lead in the high school play, has just re-appeared from the school parking lot with an icepack on his head. He has not slept since the dress rehearsal the night before. He is dazed and slightly crazed after walking all night. Marcus is a student actor who is delving hard into the Stanislavsky method; his emotions are amplified by his sleeplessness and his statements are bold and extravagant. He philosophizes about his place in the world and how the theatre has changed his sense of self.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Ghost Moments<\/i><\/b> by Randy Wyatt
\n<\/b>We all have ghosts that haunt us. Do we run from them or hunt them down? 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, Zachary prepares his bunker for the zombie apocalypse. Others are metaphorical: Marianne’s absent father, Bethany’s lost innocence, Caroline’s memories of water, Michael’s lost afternoons of love, Carver’s secret powers. As we witness hauntings and exorcisms through a series of monologues, this group of characters and their loves, longings, joy and pain, will haunt us long after the curtain falls. Matty, 20ish, has promised to try to exorcise a spirit from his sister’s apartment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Born And Raised<\/i> by Kristine M. Reyes and Hangman<\/i> by Pete Barry<\/h4>\n
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Born And Raised<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>Kristine M. Reyes
\n<\/b>Paul, a senior in high school in the Midwest, is taping the video portion of his college application to UCLA. He\u2019s slightly awkward and nervous, but very enthusiastic because he gets to talk about how his dad is his biggest inspiration. Paul was adopted by a white couple as a baby boy, but he\u2019s never felt weird about being adopted, or questioned his identity, thanks to his dad. He has grown up thinking he\u2019s Chinese. Soon after in the play, he\u2019ll find out he\u2019s not.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hangman<\/i><\/b> by <\/b>Pete Barry
\n<\/b>Five boys sit in an empty Boarding School classroom in the middle of the night. All but one are high on various substances– Tetwilliger has remained sober to observe and monitor the rest. Two are playing a confusing game of hangman, one can\u2019t keep food down and another, Jones, is lying unconscious. Tetwillger believes he is experiencing enlightenment and wishes desperately Jones would share his experience with him because, as we find out, he is severely jealous of not having taken a drug. This is his frustrating and philosophical monologue to the unconscious boy on the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

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