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It struck me as amusing. Some called it the American Desert. I tried to run away, but Renly Baratheon took me in his arms. I know what youre doing. I dont know. But I didnt mind, no, I didnt mind until I overheard a group of my friends making crass unkind comments about my family. Hold on. Young Women's Contemporary Monologues, Dramatic 1. Racism is built into the DNA of America. Ah, its not the same. Just like our marriage is an abortion. What do you know? A monologue from the screenplay by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola. Youre sucking all my energy up in your silence. I cant seem to I cant seem to shake the real implication of dying. The Long Farewell. for how many sorrows [lit. . He left. Watch the movie 1979 (Kate Nelligan)|2019 (Royal Shakespeare Company), 19 Dramatic Shakespeare Monologues For Men, 20 Comedic Shakespeare Monologues For Men, Disclaimer: Some of the articles on Mighty Actor include affiliate links to sites like Amazon, Skillshare, and others. And then when he comes over to pick me up, she puts on lipstick! Each finger, my palms, my thumbs. I remember the first time I saw it. Today my eyes died. But Mary, I open my eyes every morning and all I want is a pipe to smoke. Shes so beautiful. Which means I married someone who lives in a world where, when a man comes to the edge of things, he has to commit to staying there and living there. Shell sit there watching Jeopardy and bad-mouth my dad. Even Ser Gregor couldnt stop him. A monologue from the screenplay by Chap Taylor & Michael Tolkin. It was me. nay, gave noticeHe was from thence discharged. Are you getting a divorce? stream Watch the movie 2013 (Ben Whishaw)|1978 (Derek Jacobi)|2013 (Royal Shakespeare Theater. !7o,{T|qd+6gxH3K6;+5N;^l3-!i7a;zy3IH??J2 p ?/O{;iJy-LxC2Xn$6cgX! It wasnt long till they came for me. IRINA: Tell me, why is it I'm so happy today? And everything would have been different. I like the way I feel. dead Henrys woundsOpen their congeald mouths and bleed afresh!Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;For tis thy presence that exhales this bloodFrom cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells;Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,Provokes this deluge most unnatural.O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!O earth, which this blood drinkst revenge his death!Either heaven with lightning strike themurderer dead,Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,As thou dost swallow up this good kings bloodWhich his hell-governd arm hath butchered! You said, lets talk truthfully, even shamelessly, then! There are also several of the most popular American plays in the history of stage represented on this list of female monologues. These feelings of futility in relation to my work. And if its not okay its not the end. In this monologue she is speaking to the the memory of her ex-husband Sebastian and gives him the analogy of high fructose corn syrup versus natural, homemade ketchup to illustrate how a good woman (like her) is the real deal and deserves to be treated as such. Who sent me to it?Who hath the honour to advance VittoriaTo this incontinent college? And I understand it less than when I first cast eyes on this place. You can think yourself lucky if one fine morning your little precious doesnt cut her sleeves off or come home in the evening without shoes and stockings. I cant stop laundering your money. Stealing from my mom. I dont have any of your magic, Walt. But that morning, I knew that rule was about to be broken. I know Ill sleep all the better. I told everyone my family died in a fire, and I came to accept it as true. . Mules 6. Four-point- five GPA, four APs, skipped ahead twice. I remember it so well, that I would shed my blood rather than degrade my rank. Applying to the naval academy following in my fathers footsteps. WOMEN'S MONOLOGUE'S Bargaining by Kellie Powell Hannah: Ryan, there's something I have to tell you. . On April 3rd 1972, a C5A Galaxy transport plane with 243 infants, children, volunteers, and crew took off from Saigon as part of Operation Babylift. His knife was in my back as we carried our guns out into the bush. At that point I panicked. If I concentrated long enough I could make the pain appear by an effort of will. listening for his irregular heartbeat and when our gazes met one cold stare meeting another I could see that he was aware that I knew. Let me help you with this., A monologue from the screenplay by James V. Hart & Michael Goldenberg. didnt have my medication . Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Our Town, and A Streetcar Named Desire all contain some of the best female monologues ever. <> endobj But what does it mean the right man? I do what I like, I dont like it. How would I know? I dont think it matters. what flaying? . They couldnt keep the game going any longer. I only know the killer was black. Once the owner of a successful P.R. Ive coerced witnesses, got clients to lie on the stand, bullied students to tears, manipulated jurors like you. But then I would wake up and the voice would start all over again. She refuses to take Martinas baby, Sofia, should Martina die, because she prefers to remain focused on her education. Just peace. I married a Wall Street lawyer. I know, I know, were not supposed to have favorites, but still were only human. Poor souls, they perishd.Had I been any god of power, I wouldHave sunk the sea within the earth or ereIt should the good ship so have swallowd andThe fraughting souls within her. There is nowhere to chain love to vows and ceremony. Oh Mother, a girl doesnt get diphtheria in the back of her knees, why so fainthearted? Id only trip on it now! to walk in Alex's shoes. I knew that I must die,Een hadst thou not proclaimed it; and if deathIs thereby hastened, I shall count it gain.For death is gain to him whose life, like mine,Is full of misery. It was a son Michael! This is why you remain in the best website to see the incredible book to have. Women's Stage Monologues and Scenes Edited and with a Foreword by Lawrence Harbison MONOLOGUE AND SCENE STUDY SERIES A SMITH AND KRAUS BOOK HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE SMITHANDKRAUS.COM Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc. 177 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755 SmithandKraus.com 2010 by Smith and Kraus, Inc. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Should you need any proof of the matter, well then look just here. The other thing about depression is it kind of collapses time. If Id known you were going to make my dress as long as that Id rather have stayed thirteen. The only one who doesnt get phone calls? No teachers. They whispered in my ear how they wanted to marry me and take me back to their castles. % Clothes are just something I use for cover, leaving room for one electric blue memory. And the fantasy of right and wrong. Oh, Michael. I knew when it was happening, and I knew when it was finished. If by your art, my dearest father, you havePut the wild waters in this roar, allay them.The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,But that the sea, mounting to the welkins cheek,Dashes the fire out. O heaven! And the future, John Lennon probably put it best. You do whatever you want. Everybody got an award! The Best 27 One Minute Monologues For Females. And then I recovered. Just let me help you, Gavin. and I say to myself always, that, being the daughter of a king, all other than a monarch is unworthy of me. Sir, call to mindThat I have been your wife, in this obedience,Upward of twenty years, and have been blestWith many children by you: if, in the courseAnd process of this time, you can report,And prove it too, against mine honour aught,My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty,Against your sacred person, in Gods name,Turn me away; and let the foulst contemptShut door upon me, and so give me up. Shes happy. Tis foolishness, I ween,To overstep in aught the golden mean. My third comfortStarrd most unluckily, is from my breast,The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,Haled out to murder: myself on every postProclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatredThe child-bed privilege denied, which longsTo women of all fashion; lastly, hurriedHere to this place, i the open air, beforeI have got strength of limit. @[YqOSys/#PZ 7xM.#RXq"NVP|hBI*] qZ(Y19:V #/\|b- #k,a) s\e+~[c bKvD%xa+_2}.-D.G?YY) And it was wonderful. Then you were still, so still. <>>> Clever enough to learn what poison you used to murder Myrcella. It always confused me, because I didnt really know what it meant. Youve had fantasies, Im sure; so have I, but were married. boiling?In leads or oils? Or the people who came before. . We must never lose it or give it away. Weiss. Not even my parents. Black eyes, passionate looks, crimson lips, dimpled cheeks, moonlight, 'Whispers, passion's bated breathing'- I don't give a tinker's cuss for the lot now, lady. Actually, it started happening last winter. % Im supposed to set goals and maybe take night classes that will expand my horizons. I have done many a bad thing. But Im done. I want to change my statement. Ah, ah the fire! A monologue from the play by Lope De Vega. fires? I would know what went with what, and everything I tried on would fit. I chose to love him. Soon, millions of people will see me and theyll all like me. Time to let the healing begin. endobj I love you. If the pilot had banked left instead of right, if the south had won the war in Vietnam, if the Russians hadnt beat us to the moon. It made me feel cold, like if love wasnt for me!. I thought about having Ser Gregor crush your skull the way he did Oberyns. Is not that glimmer there afar That dying exhalation that pale star A tiny taper, which, with trembling blazeFlickering twixt struggling flames and dying rays,With ineffectual sparkMakes the dark dwelling place appear more dark?Yes, for its distant light,Reflected dimly, brings before my sightA dungeons awful gloom,Say rather of a living corse, a living tomb;And to increase my terror and surprise,Drest in the skins of beasts a man there lies:A piteous sight,Chained, and his sole companion this poor light.Since then we cannot fly,Let us attentive to his words draw nigh,Whatever they may be. Read the play here Student Edition|Regular Edition, A monologue from the play by Frank Wedekind. D~7)WFM9|#%)!kWPSl|%Z >DcGM& 1`tRUUo -yhF_>AH@ [q,^g>Hc)b@diAI|N No one had such skill with his spear. (Beat). What do you call this house?Is this your palace? Your bones will turn to sand. Its terrifying. She won't be surprised. Monologues include video examples, analysis and character descriptions. I know now that its over. Suddenly, you find your whole days blending together to create one endless and suffocating loop. Why did I fail? Yes, freedom has fangs. Here, he has come home for a while, and she tells him what she thinks of his being an absentee father. . Thinking about my whole life, how . (Beat.) . And it has been with me for so long, that its comforting. It had never placed it rotten finger on my heart. does it not show too clearly over whom thou art destined to reign? Im old. From Bull by Mike Bartlett: When she hears you're out of work, her low estimation of you will drop even further. A time, methinks, too shortTo make a world-without-end bargain in.No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this:If for my love, as there is no such cause,You will do aught, this shall you do for me:Your oath I will not trust; but go with speedTo some forlorn and naked hermitage,Remote from all the pleasures of the world;There stay until the twelve celestial signsHave brought about the annual reckoning.If this austere insociable lifeChange not your offer made in heat of blood;If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weedsNip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,But that it bear this trial and last love;Then, at the expiration of the year,Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,And, by this virgin palm now kissing thineI will be thine; and till that instant shutMy woeful self up in a mourning house,Raining the tears of lamentationFor the remembrance of my fathers death.If this thou do deny, let our hands part,Neither entitled in the others heart. Dont scold, Mother darling. Are you lonely for your long lost family, the one you never really wanted, or do people want families before theyre formed and then freak out that they cant manage them once they get them? endobj You could come home tomorrow and its fine. endobj 47 children were rescued, I was one of them. Get the Monologue Here while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. He slit your throat, a flash of unbearable pain, while a soldier about my age held a cup to collect your blood. But he was wrong. No. I try to find ways to make myself feel something more and more and more it doesnt make any difference. The Long Goodbye, was that it? What have I got, Harry? It stirred sh*t up, you know? If you just hit "print" every single monologue will print!!! Because this isnt a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Watching for any kind of reaction. THE STORY 3. Like it was all some elaborate scheme I thought up. Because, after 25 years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other. No one lives forever? Ive never heard anyone say Im happy and actually feel it. When I wear my penitential robe Ill be dressed like the queen of the fairies underneath. I hope that, whoever you are, you escape this place. Your horrors effaced. % A son! A monologue from the tv series created by Taylor Sheridan. fires] in order to extinguish my own. Step into the streets without looking and the carriage merely stops or swerves; the only consequence an angry driver. But I chose to find out.. ?E` %(o+onS It belongs to someone who has yet to come. But you have a great excuse, because the rainforest isnt wired for cell service. O, the cry did knockAgainst my very heart. Youll own it and the land forever. What I did was awful, and Im so sorry. I thought, Thats true love. Men go out with me, we break up, and then they get married! I know! So you find yourself trying to remember the things that made you happy. You cannot forget me. But if this is Hell, then I must be a demon, too. - "Heart in the Ground" by Douglas Hill (Karen) - "In the Boom Boom Room" by David Rabe (Chrissy or Susan.Interesting play involving go-go dancing.) In high school, it was a smile that I faked to get boys to like me. Im sorry. And if its an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. a weak and divided person who stood in adoring awe of your singleness, of your strength. I knew about Michelle. Maybe I wont be around. You may choose up to 2 monologues to self-tape from the list of top 25 monologues included in this document. At the law firm, I wore heels, makeup, and a wig. if Chimne ever has Rodrigo for a husband, my hope is dead and my spirit, is healed. How to destroy Ellaria Sand, the woman who murdered my only daughter. But youre right. Nay, then,if these things are pleasing to the gods,when I have suffered my doom,I shall come to know my sin; but if the sinis with my judges, I could wish themno fuller measure of evil than they,on their part, mete wrongfully to me. When you are ready to print, please highlight, copy, and paste into a document. You neednt try to deceive me. Then we wouldnt be here. Thats the only good option. They are set up on each page so that they are easy to . Amy, a romantic young girl, has a crush on the town bully and she's describing it to her friend Virginia.] Tis I:Do you know me now? Maybe I deserve to get my ass left at a train station at one A.M. , you know? The fact is that no item of clothing has ever moved me in any way except one. Thus let us hope for no advantage, either from his transgression or from my grief, since, to punish me. And him, O wondrous him!O miracle of men! 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