Best Modern Monologues for Men

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
THE REAL THING	Tom Stoppard	Henry	Amazon.co.uk
FOOL FOR LOVE	Sam Shepard	Eddie	Amazon.co.uk
BRONTESAURUS	Lanford Wilson	Nephew	Amazon.co.uk
THE LIBERTINE	Stephen Jeffreys	Rochester	Amazon.co.uk
BLOOD KNOT	Athol Fugard	Zachariah	Amazon.co.uk
RUMORS	Neil Simon	Lenny Ganz	Amazon.co.uk
CLOUD NINE	Caryl Churchill	Martin	Amazon.co.uk
BLOOD KNOT	Athol Fugard	Morris	Amazon.co.uk
IN ARABIA WE’D ALL BE KINGS	Stephen Adly Guirgis	Charlie	Amazon.co.uk
DIVISION STREET	Steve Tesich	Chris	Amazon.co.uk
TERRE HAUTE	Edmund White	Harrison	Amazon.co.uk
DANCE AND THE RAILROAD	David Henry Hwang	Ma	Amazon.co.uk
JAILBAIT	Deirdre O’Connor	Mark	Amazon.co.uk
BALM IN GILEAD	Lanford Wilson	Fick	Amazon.co.uk
MIDDLETOWN	Will Eno	Mechanic	Amazon.co.uk
THE CHERRY ORCHARD	Anton Chekhov	Trofimov	Amazon.co.uk
THIRD	Wendy Wasserstein	Third	Amazon.co.uk
THE HOMECOMING	Harold Pinter	Lenny	Amazon.co.uk
THE SCENE	Theresa Rebeck	Charlie	Amazon.co.uk
DEATH OF A SALESMAN	Arthur Miller	Biff	Amazon.co.uk
THE CHERRY ORCHARD	Anton Chekhov	Lopakhin	Amazon.co.uk
THE SEAGULL	Anton Chekhov	Treplev	Amazon.co.uk
DIVISION STREET	Steve Tesich	Chris	Amazon.co.uk
CLOUD NINE	Caryl Churchill	Jerry	Amazon.co.uk

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