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This is Romeo's monologue from Act V Scene III of Romeo and Juliet. It is the one where he kills himself. I apologize for posting the whole monologue in this, I could not find a webpage that had only the monologue on it. All I could find was the entire scene. (I have won competitions with this monologue, by the way.)





For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.
[Laying PARIS in the tomb]
How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death: O, how may I
Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favour can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again: here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here's to my love!
[Drinks]
O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
[Dies]

Thank you Gingerbread! I do love that monologue but they are looking for contemporary. But I really appreciate your reply.

I have over 1400 views and only a few replies. I can not tell if that is impressive or actually makes me a jacka**. Probably the latter....

I'm not a fan of LaBute or reasons to be pretty, but I think some of Tom Sadoski's monologues from the that might be appropriate to audition with for Red.

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The ones that pop into my head are:
--Paul's from "A Chorus Line" ("...Take care of my son")
--the "Have it Your Way" monologue from "Assassins" about Nixon ("...Whom do we trust, what can we do? We do the only thing we can do. We kill the President.")

I'm one of those who clicked, but can't help. Engineer and theatre-goer here.

Good luck though!

Strange, was just thinking about The Pillowman - excellent play!