Best Modern Monologues for Women

The list of monologues below is just the tip of the iceberg. Audition Monologues are there to show you at your very best. Don’t let yourself down, remember these two rules when choosing a speech.

Choosing a monologue

Choose a monologue which is suited to your age range, acting type, gender and appearance. You’d be suprised how many actors do a speech which is so far out of their casting bracket its ridiculous. Show them how you see yourself and how you think you should be cast.
Read the play

The most important rule of all is that you read the play. Don’t just dive into a Monologue Book and choose blindly. Study the play as if you were actually going to play that character in a production. Try out other scenes which include your character. You will more than likely be asked questions about your choices and your opinions by the drama school audition panel, you need to be answer confidently, and to do that you need to read the whole play. So many actors fail because they find a monologue online or in a monologue book and never read the full play and learn who the character is.

The listed plays and monologues are all available at Amazon. You MUST read the full play

TITLE	AUTHOR	ROLE	AMAZON LINK
BORN BAD	Debbie Tucker Green	Dawta	Amazon.co.uk
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE	Tennessee Williams	Death	Amazon.co.uk
100 SAINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW	Kate Fodor	Theresa	Amazon.co.uk
THREE SISTERS	Anton Chekhov	Natasha	Amazon.co.uk
LAST OF THE BOYS	Steven Dietz	Lorraine	Amazon.co.uk
A CHORUS LINE	James Kirkwood	Val	Amazon.co.uk
FROM UP HERE	Liz Flahive	Grace	Amazon.co.uk
SATURDAY NIGHT	Jerome Kass	Rochelle	Amazon.co.uk
WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING	Andrew Bovell	Elizabeth	Amazon.co.uk
THE LOVER	Sarah	Prue	Amazon.co.uk
VICTORY	Howard Barker	Devonshire	Amazon.co.uk
THE SEAGULL	Anton Chekov	Masha	Amazon.co.uk
OUR TOWN	Thornton Wilder	Emily Webb	Amazon.co.uk
TALKING HEADS	Alan Bennett	Lesley	Amazon.co.uk
DUSK RINGS A BELL	Stephen Belber	Molly	Amazon.co.uk
FEAR AND MISERY IN THE THIRD REICH	Bertolt Brecht	Jewish Wife	Amazon.co.uk
THREE SISTERS	Anton Chekhov	Irena	Amazon.co.uk
CELEBRATION	Pinter	Prue	Amazon.co.uk
PATTER FOR THE FLOATING LADY	Steve Martin	Angie	Amazon.co.uk
THE STAR SPANGLED GIRL	Neil Simon	Sophie	Amazon.co.uk
THE LIBERTINE	Stephen Jeffreys	Elizabeth	Amazon.co.uk
4.48 PSYCHOSIS	Sarah Kane	Unnamed	Amazon.co.uk
CLEO CAMPING EMMANUELLE AND DICK	Terry Johnson	Imogen	Amazon.co.uk
INVITATION TO A MARCH	Arthur Laurents	Camilla	Amazon.co.uk
APOLOGIA	Alexi Kaye Campbell	Trudi	Amazon.co.uk
AFTER THE REVOLUTION	Amy Herzog	Emma Jospeh	Amazon.co.uk
DREAM GIRL	Elmer Rice	Georgie	Amazon.co.uk
CLOUD NINE	Caryl Churchill	Betty	Amazon.co.uk
LITTLE BIRD	Mary Gallagher	Prandy	Amazon.co.uk
WILD HONEY	Anton Chekhov	Anna Petrovna	Amazon.co.uk

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