What are qualities of a good monologue?
Choose a monologue from a full length published play. Read the whole play so that you know the context of the monologue and the character’s situation. Besides picking one in your age range without a regional dialect, pick one where your character is fighting to get something from a specific person, i.e. no dreams, no talking to the audience, no telephone calls, no soliloquy or self-reflective types of monologues. Do not choose monologues that are cited as “original” or written by “anonymous.” As with the song, a monologue of 30 seconds is plenty for the auditioners to evaluate your acting potential.
