With what conclude?Or how pursue the train of my discourse?I never with the opening morn forboreTo breathe my silent plaints, which to thy faceI wished to utter, from my former fearsIf eer I should be free: I now am free.Now, to thee living what I wished to speak,I will recount. Ian just got promoted to ROTC and he tested out of English and Carl blew something up at the science fair. And then you burned my ignorance away. (totally in control) Monday morning, youre history. Grow up, get a job, become a drone, thats it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. DETAILS: Comedy, love, unbalanced relationship, male (female), around 2 minutes. A KLINGON IN LOVE: Arlen is just your average klingon at a Star Trek Convention and he . I always thought famous people were distant and proud; I thought they despised the common crowd which exalts riches and birth. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. Network 5. (Pause. A monologue from the play by Tennesse Williams. How a wise manStands for a great calamity! O Mother, fill mine hair with happy flowers,And speed me forth. LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE 2. She tells the team her story before court. it waxes, nears me nowWoe, woe for me, Apollo of the dawn!Lo, how the woman-thing, the lionessCouched with the wolfher noble mate afarWill slay me, slave forlorn! It were a fire, John, we lay in fire. I know the powerOf God is on me: but this little hour,Wilt thou but listen, I will hold him back! Well talk when youre ready. Short Dramatic Monologues One Minute Monologues from Movies One Minute Monologues from Plays 'Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven' (Annie): "Daddy, I know what I want to do with my life" 'Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven' (Annie): "You are being really, really, really mean" As bare as some December tree I saw them allwalking like saints to church, running to feed the sick, and hypocrites in their hearts! It is perfectly true, Torvald. TWO SHADES AWAY You were playing Barbies with Betty Finn! Transfer to Washington. Youre pretending to m*sturbate and Im wondering why? You havent got the kind of brains that enables a woman to get back. Impenetrable 6. But Im not brave enough to throw myself; I cannot hold fast and I long to fall -but I dont fall. While Lisa is a violent person, this was one scene that provoked hostility and cost Daisy's life. A monologue from the screenplay/tv-show by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy. You were my mum too. It pleased you not to. You were a Brownie, you were a Bluebird, you were a Girl Scout Cookie! If he abandoned you, your place is with your child. He who least regardsSuch brainsick fantasies lives most at ease. The Seagull 13. Virginia, this boy always seemed lonely somehow. Thou hast destroyed my hopes,Made me an orphan, him and me bereftOf a dear father, by no wrongs enforced.My mother basely wedding, thou hast slainThe glorious leader of the Grecian arms,Yet never didst thou tread the fields of Troy.Nay, such thy folly, thou couldst hope to findMy mother, shouldst thou wed her, nought of illTo thee intending: hence my fathers bedBy thee was foully wronged. Ill tell thee a miracle,I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow.Thheaven oer my head seems made of molten brass,The earth of flaming sulphur, yet I am not mad;I am acquainted with sad miseryAs the tanned galley-slave is with his oar.Necessity makes me suffer constantly,And custom makes it easy. As for me, if suffering be an expiation, then at this moment I have expiated all my faults, whatever they have been; for to-night you have made a heart in one who had it not, made it and broken it.But let that pass. If Id known you were going to make my dress as long as that Id rather have stayed thirteen. He will not useHis past experience, like a man of sense,To judge the present need, but lends an earTo any croaker if he augurs ill.Since then my counsels naught avail, I turnTo thee, our present help in time of trouble,Apollo, Lord Lycean, and to theeMy prayers and supplications here I bring.Lighten us, lord, and cleanse us from this curse!For now we all are cowed like marinersWho see their helmsman dumbstruck in the storm. They did it all. Ill stop analyzing everything you do when you stop creating performative situations that you clearly want me to observe. Im telling my womens group everything. The plain facts of the case are these. You have never been utterly dependent on another person for happiness. I tell you, it's queer, Mrs Peters. Theater isnt even a real thing. Oedipus the King 2. Meredith called me Shrinking Violet once during my freshman year and ever since then, everyone thinks my name is Violet. Im on the pill, Im off the pill, Im on the pill, Im off the pill. Usually we dont know a thing about it. But even if he had a thousand loves, you must stay with your child. Youre not that special. I came into the world against my mothers wishes, I discovered, and was brought up like a child of nature my mother, and taught everything that a boy must know as well; I was to be an example of a woman being as good as a man . You, my husband, may boast you had the best of wives; and you, my children, that you lost the best of mothers! All of you. I am serious. Miss Julie 12. This penitential robe will keep. Out them. A right physicians closet tis,Set round with vials, every one her mark too.Sure he does practice physic for his own use,Which may be safely calld your great mans wisdom.What manuscript lies here? while I wore it yet, thou sawst me mockedThere at my home by each malicious mouthTo all and each, an undivided scorn.The name alike and fate of witch and cheatWoe, poverty, and famineall I bore;And at this last the god hath brought me hereInto deaths toils, and what his love had made,His hate unmakes me now: and I shall standNot now before the altar of my home,But me a slaughter-house and block of bloodShall see hewn down, a reeking sacrifice.Yet shall the gods have heed of me who die,For by their will shall one requite my doom.He, to avenge his fathers blood outpoured,Shall smite and slay with matricidal hand.Ay, he shall cometho far away he roam,A banished wanderer in a strangers landTo crown his kindreds edifice of ill,Called home to vengeance by his fathers fall:Thus have the high gods sworn, and shall fulfil.And now why mourn I, tarrying on earth,Since first mine Ilion has found its fateAnd I beheld, and those who won the wallPass to such issue as the gods ordain?I too will pass and like them dare to die! It was in your hands, to do what you liked with. . Running time is anywhere from 1-2-3 minutes long. sighs] must my heart prepare itself, if, after such a long, painful struggle. Still. Elyot was the first love affair of my life, and in spite of all the suffering he caused me before. . It wasnt love, I know that(pause) He never even noticed me. Perhaps. 11. Im protesting. and avenged themselves on it by dazzling it with the inextinguishable honour and glory of their fame. No one knows who you are. Then came the big fire which of course you have heard about. I am a prize among women. Nanette finds out Dianes romantic relationship with Maurice and says that she would have found a way to break up the affair. (children shriek downstairs) Hear them? Dramatic Monologues for Women. Sooner would I standThree times to face their battles, shield in hand,Than bear one child. I'm better. A monologue from the screenplay/tv-show by Peter Nowalk, Michael Russo, Abby Ajayi, and Erika Green Swafford. Thus I should have lived my life out, and you too, and you would not lament as now, made solitary from your wife, that you must rear our children motherless! I remember it so well, that I would shed my blood rather than degrade my rank. Life Is A Dream 3. I know Ben does, I know it. Radium Girls 13. 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. Im literally seeing things. MY SIDE OF THINGS Two sisters try to come together by making admissions. Im done. Hear them screaming? Ever Young (dramatic) 4. . CIGARETTES AND CHOCOLATE (dramatic) 10. It was a force too strong for me. ChOephori Or The Libation Bearers 11. The Spanish Tragedy 16. Could great men thunderAs Jove himself does, Jove would neer be quiet,For every pelting, petty officerWould use his heaven for thunder;Nothing but thunder! Sure, far-comers anywhere,I know, must bow them and be gentle. The little girl-dress suits me better than that old sack. "It'll Sound Silly" The Children. I always introduce myself as Elizabeth. A monologue from the screenplay/tv-show by Laurie Nunn. Is it sinful to think of such things, Mother? A monologue from the screenplay/tv-show by John Wells. every year I must grow more imperious, more dominating, more terrorizing to hold supremacy over this new independent generation. 23 Dramatic Monologues For Men From Movies. Oh, I should like to see your blood flowingto see your brain on the chopping block, all your sex swimming in a sea of blood. Copyright [2023] Mighty Actor, DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES FOR TEENS/KIDS (BOYS), DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES FOR TEENS/KIDS (GIRLS), The Best 27 One Minute Monologues For Females, 4. No, now I shall stay. Its always been my name. And everybody thinks Im crazy. All of you? If he ill-treated you, you must stay with your child. Look, perjured man, on herWhom thou and thy distracted lust have wronged.Thy sensual rage of blood hath made my youthA scorn to men and angels, and shall IBe now a foil to thy unsated change?Thou knowst, false wanton, when my modest fameStood free from stain or scandal, all the charmsOf Hell or sorcery could not prevailAgainst the honour of my chaster bosom.Thine eyes did plead in tears, they tongue in oathsSuch and so many, that a heart of steelWould have been wrought to pity, as was mine:And shall the conquest of my lawful bed,My husbands death urged on by his disgrace,My loss of womanhood, be ill rewardedWith hatred and contempt? He is the idol of the public, the papers are full of him, his photograph is for sale everywhere. Such ideas come to me in the evening when I cant go to sleep. Mules 6. Mrs. Hale's Monologue from Trifles including context, text and video example. If he was harsh to you, you must stay with your child. She Kills Monsters 10. Although the kid giving the monologue might not understand all the jokes, it's all in the delivery. My mother became ill -what it was I dont know, but she often had cramps and acted queerly .