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Hi,

My DD has an audition approaching swiftly for an agent (her first ever one).
She's been asked to prepare a short (one minute) monologue for it.
She's seventeen and it needs to be contemporary.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Hi! I just turned 18, and I recently did this monologue from 'Confusions' by Alan Ayckbourn. The character is a young student who is seeking advice about her abusive boyfriend. I had to cut it down quite a bit to get it to be 1 minute but I think it worked quite well:

BERYL
Thanks. Sorry, only the man over there won’t stop talking. I wanted to read this in peace. I
couldn’t concentrate. He just kept going on and on about his collections or something. I
normally don’t mind too much, only if you get a letter like this, you need all your
concentration. You can’t have people talking in your ear – especially when you’re trying to
decipher writing like this. He must have been stoned out of his mind when he wrote it. It
wouldn’t be unusual.

(I just did the bit below:)

Look at it. He wants me to come back. Some hopes. To him. He’s
sorry, he didn’t mean to do what he did, he won’t do it again I promise, etc., etc. I seem to
have heard that before. It’s not the first time, I can tell you. And there’s no excuse for it, is
there? Violence. I mean, what am I supposed to do? Keep going back to that? Every time
he loses his temper he … I mean, there’s no excuse. A fracture, you know. It was nearly a
compound fracture. That’s what they told me. (indicating her head) Right here. You can
practically see it to this day. Two X-rays. I said to him when I got home, I said, “You
illegitimate person, you know what you did to my head?” He just stands there. The way he does.
“Sorry,” he says, “I’m ever so sorry.” I told him, I said, “You’re a illegitimate person, that’s what you
are. A right, uncontrolled, violent, bad-tempered illegitimate person.” You know what he said? He
says, “You call me a illegitimate person again and I’ll smash your stupid face in”.


I also looked in a lot of monologue books, which can be quite useful, though you have to make sure you read the whole play as well. Good luck, hope this helps!