MONOLOGUE CHALLENGE: HERE THEY ARE!

Funny, serious, sad, classical, witty….
here are the monologues!

Alina Queirolo portrays “Good People” by David Lindsat-Abaire

Simon Chater offers us Cyrano’s “nose speech” from the TV adaptation (1985) of Cyano de Bergerac, a play by Edmond Rostand. 

Melanie Fuertes tells us of “The Gratitude List” by Gabriel Davis

John Hudson gives us the Land of Confusion by Anthony Goerge Banks / Phillip David Charles.

Camila Ledo tells us about dystopian Far Away, by Carol Churchill.

Gregorio Pando Poez brings Marc Anthony to life in Julius Caesar

Ana Aldazabal shows she knows her dodos, in this portrayal of Eve from Eve’s Diary by Mark Twain

Andrew Cobb tells us it’s Your Move, Chief as Dr. Sean, Good Will Hunting, written by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck.

Lucia Vallaro and her wonderful excuse to go to dinner

Sam Gilbert and the School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Vicky Iolster in pours her romantic heart out in Sonnet 18 – Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
 
Gabriel Romero Day thinking about what it is like to be dead in this monologue from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

 Fernanda Bigotti instructs us on the proper way to make a marriage proposal according to Mabel Chiltern, from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
 
Jordan Saxby delivers a killing monologue straight out of Gotham City: The Killing Joke by Brian Azzarello, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore.

Sofia Chater delivers a scathing monologue as Abigail Williams from The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Hugo Halbrich in a sincere, heartfelt rendition of The Song of Wandering Aengus by Irish poet W. B. Yeats

Peter Macfarlane proves to us that a little lunacy never hurts, as Don Miguel de Cervantes in Man of La Mancha.  Written by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh.

You know you work in amateur theatre when…

…your living room sofa spends more time on stage than you do.
…you have your own secret family recipe for stage blood.
…you can find a prop in the prop room that hasn’t seen the light of day in ten years, but you don’t know where your own vacuum cleaner is.
…you start buying your work clothes at second-hand stores so you can buy costumes at the shopping mall.
…you’ve ever cleaned a tuxedo with a magic marker.
…you’ve ever appeared on stage in an outfit held together with hot glue.
…you’ve ever appeared in a show where tech week is devoted to getting the running time under four hours.
…you’ve ever appeared in a show where the cast outnumbered the audience.
…you’ve ever gotten a part because you were the only one who showed up for the audition.
…you’ve ever menaced anyone with a gun held together with duct tape.
…you’ve ever had to haul a sofa offstage between scenes wearing a dinner gown and high heels.
…you’ve ever had to haul a sofa offstage between scenes wearing a dinner gown and high heels…and you’re a guy.
…your kids know your lines better than you do.
…you’ve ever had to play a drunk scene opposite someone who was REALLY drunk.
…you’ve ever heard a director say, “try not to bump into the furniture”, and mean it.
…you’ve ever heard the head of the set construction crew say: “just paint it black – no one will ever see it”.
…the set designer has ever told you not to walk on the left half of the stage because the floor’s still wet –five minutes before curtain.
…you’ve ever said, “Don’t worry –we’ll just staple it!”.