Crude/ sexual monologues?

[aces25]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 1:15am

Hi, I need to find a shocking, sexual and even crude monologue... any suggestions??

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 5:35am

Need?

[kyleorlando]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 10:28am

Check out "Cloud 9" by Caryl Churchill. There are quite a few in there. Also, since the gender roles for many of the characters are reversed, male/female doesn't really apply.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 11:16am

The character Alex in "The Little Dog Laughed" by Douglas Carter Beane has a monologue about him being a prostitute and how his first client peed on him. It's very crude but also very, very funny. I use it for auditions a lot.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 11:16am

Updated On: 1/9/09 at 11:16 AM

[[tos]fan999]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 3:49pm

There's lots of shocking monologues in August: Osage County. My favorite one is where Jean is talking about her dad's affair and how mom is on "hymen patrol".

[FlyingMonkey1223]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 4:10pm

Check out the play "CLOSER" by Patrick Marber, which was made into a film starring Julia Roberts a few years ago. Some really nasty dialogue in it that you could use as a monologue. You can order the play from Amazon.com, or at your local bookstore.
Updated On: 1/9/09 at 04:10 PM

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 4:23pm

The Val monologue in ACL is sorta sexual in it's nature...but probably not something you'd want to audition with.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 5:05pm

Unless they ask for it, you shouldn't do crude/sexual/violent, etc monologues for auditions. It's not something most casting people want to see--especially as their first impression of you.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 5:12pm

That is true jrb...but if you know the specific show(s) that you are auditioning for and something like that would put you in mind of a particular character, then I would say that it would be okay.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 5:25pm

I would just be careful. There are always exceptions to every audition rule.

But, I would say "hello" with my first piece with them and then see if a second piece or a callback would be the place for a piece like that. In most cases, I would bet they would have you read from the script--at which point, they are ready and permitting the subject matter.

This is not to say that you can't do a heavy piece--you just don't want things to be graphic or uncomfortable for a casting person. Especially in their very first impression of you.

[aces25]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 5:41pm

Don't worry folks. This is a class and they are explicitly asking for shocking material.

[Weez]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 5:48pm

In that case, do you have a gender and an age? :P

[ihavepsychicpowers]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 5:52pm

heh. Try fifty words. That was pretty shocking.

[Revolutionary]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 6:10pm

I second CLOSER, definitely.

[PitPro2004]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 10:44pm

It's been decades but...does Oh Calcutta have anything of use in it? Not sure it was shocking, but there were a few things that made me laugh.

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 10:53pm

you can turn bits of the last scene of The Shape of Things into a monologue (for adam). As for its crudity, the the term "heartless c**t" comes up.

[Jon]

Posted: 1/10/09 at 10:56am

There's a monologue in HURLY BURLY in which the woman describes being so high that she performed oral sex on some celebrity in the back of a limo while her 5 year old daughter was in the car with her.

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 1/10/09 at 12:46pm

The only thing I remember about The Homecoming was the woman sitting in the chair and talking about how her underwear moved when her legs moved.

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 1/10/09 at 12:59pm

Amy Sedaris says she used to audition with material about anal sex from the book "Our Bodies, Ourselves". Just a thought.

[aces25]

Posted: 1/10/09 at 2:30pm

Any monologues that talk about actually having sex or peeing?

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 1/10/09 at 2:36pm

Anyone else the tiniest bit suspicious about this thread?

In the event you're actually serious, and not just having us on - Torch Song Trilogy.

But honestly, what class asks for something that sexually explicit? I'd have a long hard look at teacher.

[FlyingMonkey1223]

Posted: 1/10/09 at 3:09pm

long hard look...teehee.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 1/10/09 at 3:20pm

I did a 15 minute scene once for this piece called "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre." There are a few monologues in there like that.

And for those who don't believe that a professor might want something like this, I was in an acting class in college and our first assignment was to do an improv of our creation and it had to try and shock the professor. So yeah, we could get as explicit and gross as we wanted and felt comfortable with.

[Weez]

Posted: 1/10/09 at 3:34pm

The thing I love about the internet is that if a professor asked me to shock 'em, my working knowledge of 4chan alone means I'd be in with a pretty good chance of succeeding. ;D