Awkward male monologues?

[aces25]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 10:29pm

I'm looking for monologues for a young man. Kinda awkward in the michael cera kinda way.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:14am

Adam in Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things."

[chewy5000]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 2:45am

Not the Paul monologue from Chorus Line?

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 7:34am

That is not awkward as much as heart breaking.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 8:23am

Ronnie's Huckleberry Finn monologue from the opening of Act Two of The House of Blue Leaves seems made to order.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 11:36am

As with any great monologue from a play that's had a major New York production, there's the danger that they've seen it a million times before. Anything from "House of Blue Leaves" is done pretty often I think as monologue books always have selections from that play. "The Shape of Things" isn't in any monologue books that I've seen but it's pretty famous. You could also check out the role of Matt in Adam Rapp's "Red Light Winter."

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:05pm

It has been a really long time ago, but look up the Lou Martin monologue from "Up the Down Staircase". I did it in 7th grade and all I can remember is trying to memorize it!

[Annas_Priest]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:11pm

Arnold's from Biloxi Blues!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:20pm

Check out this page for a list of overdone monologues according to a number of NY casting folks:

http://monologueaudition.com/ma_overdone-men.htm

I also highly recommend the classes on this site.

[Queen of the Night]

Posted: 1/28/10 at 10:13pm

What about Mark's monologue from A Chorus Line?

[Pgenre]

Posted: 1/28/10 at 10:15pm

There's some terrific stuff in Edward Albee's very controversial THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY for The Boy, originally played by David Burtka. Particularly the first scene.

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[peerrjb]

Posted: 1/29/10 at 1:01am

It's been awhile (QUITE a while) since I did it, and I can't find my copy, but "Eugene" has a monologue in Ketti Fring's (Pulitzer Prize-winning) stage version of "Look Homeward, Angel". It is, I THINK, in the second act, and has to do with his love of trains and touching the engine of one while it was in the station. It's really quite beautifully written and wonderful to act. Anthony Perkins played it to much acclaim (and a Tony nom) when it opened in 1957. It's worth a look-see. And as for the awkward...well, it was young Tony Perkins...!

In "Total Eclipse", by Christopher Hampton, (the story of the love affair between Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine) Rimbaud's speech in Act 2, Scene 3 is interesting. Leo DiCaprio did the part in the film. He's 17. In this speech he's "taking over", but there are some other long speeches in Act 1 which, by cutting out simple reponses from Verlaine, could become a more awkward-monologue, as well.

[Upland]

Posted: 1/30/10 at 11:16pm

Check out a collection of Neil LaBute plays.
Also - there is a good monologue in Rebecca Gillman's "Spinning Into Butter"

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 1/31/10 at 12:03am

From Six Degrees of Separation, the Catcher in the Rye monologue. Not quite what you want, maybe, but it has its awkward moments.
Will Smith's monologue

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 1/31/10 at 1:17am

I have currently been using Red Light Winter and it has some really great stuff in it. The text is just great.