EMERGENCY! - Need a non-Shakespeare classical comic monologue for a male!!

[CapnHook]

Posted: 3/20/06 at 8:49pm

I can't waste time explaining my situation. I just need a monologue tomorrow that is:

a) for a male
b) classical
c) non-Shakespeare
d) comic!
e) not done to death at auditions (but I'll look at anything at this point!)

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!!!!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 1:43am

try Moliere

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 9:18am

wilbur translations of moliere and since i am assuming you are a young person i will direct you to SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER several young men in that.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 9:18am

Thanks, jrb, and anyway all the rest. I finally found one in the playwright we were told not to do because he's problematic...Chekov. Perfection.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:32am

i would not call chekhov classical. i assume you want something in verse or "elevated" language or what's called "style". i think you will be rapped on the nose by your teacher if you brought in a chekhov under these circumstances.

[elmore3003]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:42am

There's a great comic monologue in Beaumarchais' MARRIAGE OF FIGARO about the English and the use of "goddam" for the character of Figaro.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:46am

Chekhov is considered modern.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:25am

chekhov isn't classical.

tartuffe has some very funny monologues.

[Jon]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:31am

Try also "The Country Wife" by Wycherly.