Monologues Other than Shakespearean
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
Act II (beginning)
Stepdaughter: “My little darling! You’re frightened, aren’t you?”
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
Act II
Liubov Andreyevna: “Oh my sins! Look at the way I’ve always squandered money, continually.”
The Conduct of Life
by Maria Irene Fornes
Scene IV
Olimpia: “As soon as I finish doing this. You can’t just ask me to do what you want me to do, and interrupt what I’m doing.”
The Sandbox
by Edward Albee
Grandma: “Honestly! What a way to treat an old woman.”
A Doll House
by Henrik Ibsen
Act III
Nora: “Perhaps, but you neither think nor talk like the man I could love.”
Fences
by August Wilson
Act I Scene IV
Troy: “I walked on down to Mobile and hitched up with some of them fellows that was heading this way.”
Act II Scene II
Rose: “I been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy.”
The Visit
by Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Act II
Claire: “How strange it is, Anton! How clearly it comes back to me!
Medea
by Euripides, translated by Frederic Prokosch (line 1005)
Medea: “Now, my friends, has come the hour of my triumph.”
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Blanche: “He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl.”
Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
Act III
Vince: “I was gonna run last night. I was gonna run and keep right on running.”
Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
Act I
Michael: “When I cast my mind back to that summer of 1936 different kinds of memories offer themselves to me.”
