MONOLOGUE AND DUOLOGUE CHOICES - A SUPPORT GUIDE

4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane

209 - 210

Monologues

(F – but M can use it) “A room of expressionless…” – will need cutting, down to “this is not a world in which I wish to live.”

ALL

the whole of this play is written as one long monologue. Most of the sections could be used as a monologue – editing would be required, pick a section that you like.

Adult Child/Dead Child by Claire Dowie

ALL

(F) – the whole of this play is written as one long monologue. Most of the sections could be used as a monologue – editing would be required, pick a section that you like.

Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne

10 - 11

Monologues

(M) Tom – “They’re a - having a funeral downstairs” down to “I mean, the funeral… I need to get out.”

Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down by Richard Cameron

3 - 4

Monologues

(F) Lynette – “I dropped down in the grass.” – will need cutting.

4 – 5

(F) Ruby – “I knew for sure…” – will need cutting. 

7 - 8

(F) Lynette – “I give her the flowers…”

16 - 17

(F) Jodie – “It’s as if a whole chunk…”

22 - 23

(F) Jodie – “I’ve been seeing Tim a bit,”

24 - 25

(F) Lynette – “Royce has now moved…”

Carmen Disruption by Simon Stephens

5 - 6

Monologues

(F) Michaela – “I have decided now that it it…” – will need cutting.

Cockroach

34 - 35

Monologues

(F) Mmoma – “Yeah. I couldn’t do that…” – cut Beth’s line.

DNA by Dennis Kelly

53 – 55

Monologues

(M) Adam – “I…I was in a…”

63 - 65

(M) Richard – “Phil, Phil, watch this! – will need cutting.

Far Away by Caryl Churchill

8 – 21

Duologue

(F & F) Joan & Harper – “I can’t sleep.” Until the end of the scene – will need cutting.

43 - 44

Monologue

(F) Joan – “Of course birds saw me…” – will need cutting.

Five Kinds of Silence by Shelagh Stevenson

Monologues

8 - 9

(M) Billy – “I’m in bed, it’s pitch dark…”

12 - 13

(F) Mary – “I’m six years old…”

14 - 15

(M) Billy – “I don’t remember pain…”

16 - 17

(M) Billy – “Our town is full of soldiers.”

17 - 18

(F) Mary – “When I met him he was gentle.”

19 - 20

(F) Mary – “A flickering memory I have…”

27 - 28

(F) Susan – “We couldn’t let him live.”

Frozen by Bryony Lavery

137 - 140

Monologue

(F) Nancy – “I’d like to see him die…”

Many Moons by Alice Birch

10 – 11

Monologues

(F) Meg – “I like to sit at home.”- will need cutting.

48 - 49

(M) Ollie – “My skin is very dry.”

Monsters by Niklas Radstrom

73 – 74

Monologue

(F) James’s Mother – “It was my child.”

Punk Rock by Simon Stephens

376 - 377

Monologue

(M) Chadwick – “Human beings are pathetic…”

Sinner by Ben Payne

58 - 61

Monologue

(M) Robert – “You’re my brother”- cut the lines at the bottom of page 58 – will need cutting.

The Children by Edward Bond

5 – 6

25 - 26

Monologues

(M) Joe – “Late. Dark soon.” – down to, “I’ll have to kill you.” – will need cutting. 

(F) Mother – “The glow’s died down…”

The Fall by James Fritz

12 - 36

Duologues

(F & M) Girl & Boy – “You are so…” – will need significant cutting.

The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley

17 – 19

Monologues

(F) Haley – “One dog started to sniff me.” – will need significant cutting.

27

(M) Presley – “I saved my pocket money…”

57

(M) Cosmo – “I hate being touched by men.”

63 - 64

(M) Presley – “I can still remember…” – will need cutting.

74 - 75

(M) Cosmo – “It’s a ghost train…”

82 - 84

(M) Presley – “I pick up a copy of the newspaper…” – down to, “…puts the rubber mouse on the corpse and leaves.”

84 - 84

(M) Presley – “I pick up a copy of the newspaper…” – down to, “…puts the rubber mouse on the corpse and leaves.”