looking for a monologue for a teenage girl.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 5/17/08 at 3:01pm

I need a monologue with a bubbly teenage girl in it. Preferably one who is talking about a guy. Preferably from a play. Thanks in advance!

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 5/17/08 at 3:23pm

I have one perfect for you. I'm actually working on it now for my theatre class. It's about a girl who just found out her boyfriend is cheating on her, and she is talking about how absolutely horrible it is she will have to date again. It's really funny and is about a minute and a half long.



Girls Guide to Chaos (That is the name of the play its from)

The realization hits me heavily, like a .44 Magnum smashing into my skull. My heart starts beating with a quick dread and my blood freezes in my veins. My stomach does back flips. The ordeal I am about to face is one of the most chilling, grisly, and macabre experiences known to woman.

Dating. I will have to start dating again.

Please, God, no, don't make me do it! I'll be good from now on, I promise! I'll stop feeding the dog hashish! I'll be kind, thoughtful, sober, industrious, anything. But please, God, not the ultimate torture of dating.

That's why I stayed with him for so long, probably. I couldn't stand going through it all again. Sure, he might be a trifle wild and intractable, I kept telling myself, but at least I know I'll get laid tonight, and tomorrow night. At least someone will go to the movies with me and not try to hold my hand.


Hand-holding. The WORST thing about dating. It's the most nerve-wrecking experience! Once I start holding hands, I'm afraid to stop. If I pull my hand away, will he think I'm being cold, or moody? Should I squeeze his hand and kind of wiggle my fingers around suggestively? Or is that too forward? What if my hand is clammy? A clammy hand is more offensive than bad breath or right-wing politics! A clammy hand means you're a lousy lay! Everybody knows that!


And what, dear spiteful God, will I wear?


Hope this helps =]

Updated On: 5/17/08 at 03:23 PM

[alliez92092]

Posted: 5/17/08 at 5:31pm

I'd recommend finding something from a play. I find it's always better to use something from a play rather than just a written monologue. I use a great book called Monologues for Women 20 and under (I think that's the name...) Go take a look at your local library and you're bound to find some books with great suggestions.

[insertclevernamehere]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 3:10am

One of my more successful monologues was Natalie Portman's in Garden State when she talks about how when she feels unoriginal she does something no one else has ever done before. I bet it's on youtube.

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 1:10pm

Rule 1. Never use a monologue from a monologue book, use a play.
Rule 2. When auditioning for a play, or company, never use a monologue from a movie.

Using monologue books and movie monologues may work in HS but once you get to a conservatory or theatre college, OR you start auditioning in the real world, always use monologues from a play.

Take the damn time to go to a library and pick out 15 plays and spend the day reading and photo copying like all the other serious actors. It's worth it.

[jennyish]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 2:55pm

Dramatothemax is absolutely right. Monologues from movies are a HUGE no. And if you really want to use a monologue from a collection, make sure you've read the entire play that it's from. Chances are, though, that if it's in a book it's incredibly overused.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:50pm

Oh believe me I know NEVER to use a monologue from a monologue book. Especially since I usually audition for things in the "real world." That's why I asked for one from a play in my original post. I spent the weekend before I posted this skimming through plays to see if there was anything appropriate for me to use. In the two years I've been a part of this site I've never posted a thread asking for help on monologue auditions. So you know when I do post a thread like this I'm REALLY having trouble. Anyway I have something I've pieced together from Days to Come by Lillian Hellman. Thanks guys.
Updated On: 5/28/08 at 04:50 PM

[Lil_little_edie942]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:29pm

P.S. Never use monologues from movies, either.

Learned that the hard way. :-/

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 4:29pm

Not from musicals either

[xOnMyOwnX]

Posted: 6/9/08 at 7:06pm

well this isn't really bubbly- it's more spoiled rich girl but I don't thought I'd post it anyway:
http://www.dramaticwriter.com/Alysa.html
Good luck

[jessikax09]

Posted: 6/10/08 at 10:37am

http://www.thedramaticpublishingcompany.com

[broadwaybaby077]

Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:36pm

Here are two monolouges. This one from Street Scene by Elmer Rice and the character is Rose:

Well, I haven't really had any time to do much thinking. But I really think the best thing I could do, would be to get out of New York. You know, like we were saying, this morning - how things might be different, if you only had a chance to breathe and spread out a little. Only when I said it, I never dreamt it would ever be this way.
I like you so much, Sam. I like you better than anybody I know. It would be so nice to be with you. You're different from anybody I know. But I'm just wondering how it would work out.
There's lots of things to be considered. Suppose something was to happen - well, suppose I was to have a baby, say. That sometimes happens even when you don't want it to. What would we do then? We'd be tied down then, for life, just like all the other people around here. They all start out loving each other and thinking everything is going to be fine - and before you know it, they find out they haven't a got anything and they wish they could do it all over again - only it's too late.
It's what you said just now - about people belonging to each other. I don't think people ought to belong to anybody but themselves. I was thinking, that if my mother had really belonged to herself, and that if my father had really belonged to himself, it never would have happened. It was only because they were always depending on somebody else, for what they ought to have had inside themselves. Do you see what I mean, Sam? That's why I don't want to belong to anybody, and why I don't want anybody to belong to me.

(it is really one monologue, but i split it into different ones here)

I want love more than anything else in this world. But loving and belonging aren't the same thing. [Putting her arms about him]: Sam dear, listen. If we say good-bye, now, it doesn't mean that it has to be forever. Maybe some day, when we're older and wiser, things will be different. [Pause]: Don't look as if it was the end of the world, Sam!
It isn't, Sam! If you'd only believe in yourself, a little more, things wouldn't look nearly so bad. Because once you're sure of yourself, the things that happen to you, aren't so important. The say I look at it, it's not what you do that matters so much; it's what you are. [Warmly]: I'm so fond of you, Sam. And I've got such a lot of confidence in you. [Impulsively]: Give me a nice kiss!

This one is from Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe. This character is Jill:

I can't talk about him. No, I will talk about him. Every once in a while it's good to do something you don't want to do, it cleanses the insides. He was terribly sweet, and groovy looking, but kind of adolescent, ya know what I mean? Girls mature faster than boys, boys are neater, but girls mature faster. When we met, it was like fireworks! It was a marvelous kind of passion that made every day seem like the 4th of July! Anyways.. the next thing I know, there we are, standing in front of the Justice of the Peace, getting married!? Its only been like two or three months and we're getting married?! I'm not even out of high school! I've got two big exams tomorrow and they were on my mind too.. and then I hear the words, "Do you Jack, take Jill, to be your lawful wedded wife?" UGH!!! Can you imagine going through life as "Jack and Jill" ?! Then I hear, "Until death do us part." And all of the sudden, its not even a wedding anymore, more like a funeral service! And there I am being buried alive!... Under Jack Benson! I wanted to scream, go running out into the night! But I couldn't.. It was 10 o'clock in the morning and well, you can't go running out into 10 o'clock in the morning. So instead, I passed out. If only I'd fainted, before I said "I do."

[Sabina]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 5:25pm

One that I've done for an audition is the character of Muffet from the play Uncommon Women and Others, by Wendy Wasserstein. The character is in college, but it's really funny and interesting.

[dramagirl487]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 3:19pm

i would've said the Butterflies are Free one as "Jill" posted above.

i've also performed The Star Spangled Girl monologue where shes telling her neighbor not to keep stalking her

[Prisoner 24601]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 7:27pm

^^ Just an FYI, I've been told to avoid the Star Spangled Girl monologue as it is done A LOT, and it's not really the type of monologue where you can "make it your own."