Preparation

For our final audition piece that will be graded we have been asked to research different contemporary and classical monologues, this has lead to my bank of speeches slowly increasing.

This monologue is one I would use because it has a powerful story to it, I felt when practicing with the speech there was a lot I could do with it. However overall I don't feel like it suited me perfectly.

This monologue is from a characterless play, with no specific gender roles meaning anyone can use these effectively. I like this speech because it's imaginative and can easily captivate an audience, however I feel with my varied search of monologues I can find something to suit me even more so.

This monologue is about a girl reviewing a version of A Midsummers' Night Dream she saw, I don't think I will use this because it's quite young and wouldn't show my acting ability.

These Shakespeare monologues below were all given to me by Olgar, I decided to take all of the options she gave to add to my research. After reading this speech out loud I don't think I would use this one because I didn't feel an instant connection with the words, I wanted to explore further.

This speech is my favourite out of the monologues I have researched, it is powerful and relevant to the present day. After reading it I felt it suited my voice and style of acting. The only downfall of this piece is that it is slightly too short in duration.

This monologue from Debris is a definite yes for me, I read it in front of my class and Olgar and my classmates loved it. They said they thought it suited my voice and this has given me even more drive to learn and to execute this speech well.

(This is the second part to the Debris monologue above)