Free monologues for auditions

The Ferry Ticket

On the harbour wall the night before the last ferry of the summer, Lea shows her best friend the one ticket she bought and explains whose name is on it.

One actor · 15 to 17 · Drama · 2 min

Group Chat

Nell gives her mother the full, timestamped account of how she was removed from the class group chat, and why she would do it again.

One actor · 14 to 17 · Comedy · 2 min

The Second Goalkeeper

After the last training session of the season, Kit tells his coach he is not coming back in August, and that the reason is standing on a different touchline.

One actor · 15 to 18 · Drama · 2 min

Driving Test

Parked outside the test centre with the examiner's pen already moving, Toby sets out, in order, why the roundabout was not entirely his fault.

One actor · 16 to 18 · Comedy · 2 min

The Tortoise Proposal

Mira has made nine slides to persuade her parents to adopt a sixty one year old tortoise. Slide nine is that he is already upstairs.

One actor · 13 to 16 · Comedy · 2 min

Rules for Grandad

Nine minutes before his grandfather's first date in fifty years, Jonah talks him through the eleven rules written on his arm. Jonah has never been on a date either.

One actor · 13 to 16 · Comedy · 2 min

The Deposit

On moving-out day, with the boxes gone and one wall a deep green, Robin explains to the landlord, calmly, what the paint is covering.

One actor · 25 to 40 · Comedy · 2 min

Best Man

Three cards into the speech, Frankie realises card three is the Lanzarote story, abandons the cards, and says the thing to Ben that was never meant for a microphone.

One actor · 28 to 45 · Comedy · 2 min

The Last Shift

At the end of an ordinary night shift, Sam tells a colleague why this is the last one, and it comes down to a window and the words 'in a minute'.

One actor · 30 to 55 · Drama · 2 min

North of the Bridge

In their late mother's kitchen, Jo tells their brother the house is sold, the key is on the hook, and the conversation he wanted already happened without him.

One actor · 35 to 60 · Drama · 2 min

The Winter Coat

Elin knocks at her ex-boyfriend's house when she knows he is out, to collect her coat from his mother. Then she asks her to hang it back up.

One actor · 18 to 25 · Drama · 1 min

Floor Six

Stuck in an office lift with a stranger, Martin confesses to the anonymous note that made someone cry. Then he notices what is in her bag.

One actor · 20 to 35 · Comedy · 1 min

The Weather for the Boats

At two in the morning, Ruth's husband catches her coming in from the car on the drive, where she has been sitting most nights since March. She never starts the engine.

One actor · 30 to 50 · Drama · 2 min

Seven Bags

Owen goes to the house of the boy who has been throwing his son's school bag in the bin, ready to frighten him. Then the boy flinches.

One actor · 40 to 60 · Drama · 2 min

The Class Plant

On the first day back after the summer, Charlie returns Bernard, the class plant, to the teacher. Bernard has grown, changed pots, and somehow started flowering.

One actor · 9 to 12 · Comedy · 2 min

The Top Board

Kai has climbed to the top diving board three Saturdays running and climbed back down every time. Today their little brother has followed them up the ladder.

One actor · 8 to 11 · Drama · 2 min

Juliet: the mask of night

Caught speaking her feelings aloud, Juliet asks Romeo for an honest answer before he mistakes her openness for carelessness.

One actor · 16 to 25 · Drama · 2 min

Lady Macbeth: unsex me here

With Duncan on his way, Lady Macbeth calls on the spirits to make her capable of carrying out the murder she imagines.

One actor · 28 to 50 · Drama · 1 min

Hamlet: To be, or not to be

Hamlet weighs an end to suffering against the fear that death may contain something worse.

One actor · 20 to 35 · Drama · 2 min

The Seagull: Nina's monologue

Антон Павлович Чехов · Original: public domain · Translated by blablabla (2026)

Nina tries to explain to Kostya how, after humiliation and failure, she learned to walk back onto the stage.

One actor · 18 to 25 · Drama · 3 min

Uncle Vanya: Sonya's monologue

Антон Павлович Чехов · Original: public domain · Translated by blablabla (2026)

Sonya promises her exhausted uncle peace after death and persuades him to go on living and working.

One actor · 20 to 27 · Drama · 2 min

Life Is a Dream: Segismundo's lament

Pedro Calderón de la Barca · Original: public domain · Translated by blablabla (2026)

Locked away since birth, Segismundo demands an explanation from heaven: the animals enjoy a freedom that is denied to him.

One actor · 18 to 30 · Drama · 2 min

Life Is a Dream: Segismundo wakes

Pedro Calderón de la Barca · Original: public domain · Translated by blablabla (2026)

Returned to his prison, Segismundo tries to decide how to live when he can no longer tell waking from dreaming.

One actor · 18 to 30 · Drama · 2 min

Cyrano de Bergerac: the nose speech

Edmond Rostand · Original: public domain · Translated by blablabla (2026)

Cyrano finishes showing the viscount all the ways he could have mocked his nose, then takes away his right to do it.

One actor · 30 to 50 · Comedy · 2 min

Faust: Gretchen at the spinning wheel

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Original: public domain · Translated by blablabla (2026)

Gretchen is alone. Every task leads her back to Faust, until the memory of his kiss becomes the wish to hold on to him.

One actor · 16 to 22 · Drama · 2 min

Jeppe on the Hill: why Jeppe drinks

Ludvig Holberg · Original: public domain · Translated by blablabla (2026)

Jeppe defends his drinking. He counts up his humiliations and explains why he never hits back.

One actor · 40 to 60 · Comedy · 2 min