{"id":9209,"date":"2021-06-22T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:23:23","slug":"questioning-queer-monologues-for-all-kinds-of-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/questioning-queer-monologues-for-all-kinds-of-journeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning & Queer: Monologues For All Kinds of Journeys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questioning & Queer: Monologues For All LGBTQ+ Journeys<\/strong><\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Amanda Grace<\/p>\n

June 20th, 2021<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Pride means different things to different members of the LGBTQ+ community, and all of those journeys are valid. From questioning to coming out to proudly fighting through the world, these 9 characters offer up multi-dimensional monologues for your next audition.<\/p>\n

From Better Places to Go<\/em> by David-Matthew Barnes<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, High School 14-18, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Derek is manic and suicidal\u2026 and harboring feelings of love for his best friend. At a rundown truck stop diner in Grand Island, Nebraska, he begs Ricardo to leave town together.<\/p>\n

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From Is Shakespeare Gay<\/em> by Alan Rossett<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Female, Comedic, Adults 30-40s, Mature 50s)<\/b><\/p>\n

William Shakespeare is virile, sexy, and charismatic in his curtain call at the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra\u2014<\/em>and he might just answer a question scholars have been asking for ages.<\/p>\n

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From Doctor Anonymous<\/em> by Guy Frederick Glass<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Young Adults 20s, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Matthew, a young psychiatrist, was once in gay conversion therapy. As the result of a scandal, he is thrown back into the closet, renounces his lover, and returns to therapy. Here, he composes a letter to his former lover from the session couch.<\/p>\n

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From Unknown <\/em>by Alexis Clements<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, Mature 50s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Sydney, part of a four-generation community of lesbians, finds speaking about intimate love uncomfortable\u2014as if she\u2019s about to be caught.<\/p>\n

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From The Mermaid Hour <\/em>by David Valdes Greenwood<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Not-Specified, Dramatic, Kids & Juniors 5-13, High School 14-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vi, a trans girl, idolizes the YouTube host of \u201cThe Mermaid Hour\u201d, an LGBTQ-positive show about creatures neither fish nor man, but somewhere in-between. Vi is filming her own mermaid video, sharing both her story and her relationship with boyfriend Jacob\u2014sending her family into a bit of a tizzy in the process.<\/p>\n

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From Leisure, Labor, Lust <\/em>by Sara Farrington<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n

In 1887, society man Harry Hunter and laborer Delancey Morris begin a passionate relationship that lasts until Harry\u2019s secret 1897 marriage to a wealthy society woman. Harry assume he and Delancey could continue on as they had been; Delancey is so wounded he refuses to see Harry for ten years. Reconciling over a chance encounter, Harry reveals that his struggle wasn\u2019t with being closeted, but with mental illness.<\/p>\n

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From A Knee That Can Bend<\/em> by Emma Goidel<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part of an underground queer circle in S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, N\u00e9n\u00e9 recounts her first queer experience for American sociology student Kate. The other woman, Aminata, was not queer, but they were together until the girl\u2019s brother shamed her. N\u00e9n\u00e9 unceremoniously ended the relationship.<\/p>\n

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From Sloe Gin Fizz<\/em> by David-Matthew Barnes<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Young Adults 20s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marco is married to a woman he doesn\u2019t love. Christopher is suffering from a broken heart. Marco thinks he could be free if he could only spend the rest of his life with Christopher\u2026 and tells him so.<\/p>\n

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From Sunshine Quest<\/em> by William Ivor Fowkes<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Mature 50s)<\/b><\/p>\n

The Sunshine Quest Club regulars are confused by John\u2019s claims to be a proud gay man since he had a wife, who he married knowing he was gay, and who only passed recently. John is also confident he isn\u2019t bisexual, and being harangued by members\u2019 questions, he explains the very real love he had for her.<\/p>\n

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