SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
Call #
Source Title
812 RAF
9 Parts of
Desire
812 RAF
9 Parts of
Desire
882.08
AES
882.08
AES
882.08
AES
882
SOP
882
SOP
882
SOP
882
EUR
Great Books:
Aeschylus,
Sophocles,
Euripides . . .
Great Books:
Aeschylus,
Sophocles,
Euripides,
Aristophanes
Great Books:
Aeschylus,
Sophocles,
Euripides,
Aristophanes
Sophocles : the
complete plays
Sophocles : the
complete plays
Sophocles : the
complete plays
10 plays /
Euripides ; a
new translation
by Paul Roche
812 MIL All My Sons
812 MIL All My Sons
812 MIL All My Sons
812
WAS
An American
Daughter
812 KUS Angels in
America
812 KUS Angels in
America
812 KUS
Angels in
Play Title
Author
Character
Gender Lines
9 Parts of
I named my daughter Ghada -Desire (pp. 28- Heather Raffo Umm Ghada Female - My full name is dead with
31)
them.
9 Parts of
Now they’re digging through
Desire (pp. 35- Heather Raffo The American Female mass graves --- I’ve never
38)
seen anything like it.
Hail, joyous light of justicebearing day!
Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Aegisthos
Male
Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Clytemnestra
Men of our city, Argive elders
Female here,
Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Clytemnestra
Female Though much to suit the times
before was said,
Ajax
Sophocles
Ajax
Male
Ajax
Sophocles
Tecmessa
Female You shall hear all that passed,
Ajax
Sophocles
Tecmessa
Female
Alcestis
Euripides
Admetus
Male
Arthur Miller
Mother
Female
I was fast asleep, and --- too
soon to plant a tree for him.
Arthur Miller
Keller
Male
The man was a fool, but don't
make --- It ain't right.
Arthur Miller
Chris
All My Sons
(Act I P. 20)
All My Sons
(Act I pp. 3132)
All My Sons
(Act II pp. 7071)
O my lord Ajax, in the ills of
men
My friends, I deem the fortune
of my wife
For me! Where do you live,
where ---- Jesus God. What
must I do?
Would you like to know. . .
.There’s nothing quite so
Lyssa (hidden
Female satifying --- but they’re still
monologue)
twisting in the wind just like the
rest of us.
An American
Daughter (Act Wendy
2, Scene 30; Wasserstein
pp. 92-94)
Angels in
America
"Millennium
Approaches"
Act 1, Scene 1
Angels in
America
"Millennium
Approaches"
Act 1, Scene 8
Angels in
America
Ah, who would have supposed
it possible
Male
Kushner,
Tony.
Rabbi Isadore
Male
Chemelwitz
Hello and good morning. I am
Rabbi Isadore Chemelwitz of
the Bronx Home for Aged
Hebrews.
Kushner,
Tony.
Joe (Hidden
monologue,
Harper
responds)
Male
Stop it . . .All I will say is --- but
I'm not going to let you do that.
Kushner,
Tony.
Roy (Hidden
monologue,
Male
AIDS. . .No. Like all labels . .
.No. I have clout . . .{The
1
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
America
"Millennium
Approaches"
(Act 1, Scene
9; pp. 51-52)
Henry
responds)
Angels in
America
Kushner,
812 KUS Angels in
"Millennium
Tony.
America
Approaches"
Scene 3
Angels in
Kushner,
America
812 KUS Angels in
"Perestroika" Tony.
America
Scene 10
Anna Christie,
812
Four Plays by
O'Neill,
Act III (223ONE
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene
224)
Aunt Dan &
812.54 Aunt Dan &
Wallace
Lemon (pp. 74SHA
Lemon
Shawn
75)
Harper
Harper
Anna
Lemon
President’s wife} I don’t want
you to be impressed . . . And
what is my diagnosis, Henry? .
. .--- No, Henry, no. AIDS is
what homosexuals have. I
have liver cancer.
People who are lonely, people
Female left alone, sit talking nonsense
to the air, imagining . . .
Night flight to San Francisco.
Chase the moon across
Female
America. God! It's been years
since I was on a plane!
I s'pose if I tried to tell you I
Female wasn't -- that -- no more you'd
believe me, wouldn't you?
My father didn’t know about my
Female mother’s conversations with
Aunt Dan in the garden.
812 CHA
The television
plays.
The Bachelor
Paddy
Party, Act I; pp.
Chayefsky
241-242
The Bachelor
Male
Mary, give me an outside line ----- Goodby. Go back to sleep.
812 CHA
The television
plays.
The Bachelor
Party, Act III;
pp. 265-266
Charlie
Male
Say to her what you said to me
------That’s what everybody is
looking for..
812
WIL
812
WIL
Paddy
Chayefsky
I collected towels, if you must
Darlene
know. You know, from all the
(Hidden
Female big hotels -- . . . . .We used . . .
monologue)
to really have some . . . times
Ann responds)
together.
Lanford Wilson Balm in Gilead Wilson,
Collected Works Act II (48-53) Lanford
Balm in Gilead
Lanford Wilson
Wilson,
Act One (25Collected Works
Lanford
26)
822 PIN Betrayal
812 ING Four Plays
812 ING Four Plays
822.912 Caesar and
SHA
Cleopatra
Dopey
Male
Jerry (Hidden
Betrayal (Act ii,
monologue,
scene 9; pp.
Harold Pinter
Male
Emma
136-137)
responds)
Bus Stop (Act I,
William Inge Dr. Lyman
Male
pp.164-165.)
Cherie (hidden
Bus Stop (Act
monologue,
William Inge
Female
II, pp.183-184.)
Elma
responds)
Caesar and
Cleopatra
Shaw,
Bernard
Caesar
2
Male
What he's saying -- about
renting rooms and all -- see -there's no reason for it but
when a girl -- or around here
anyway most of the girls have
a guy that -- kinna looks after
them.
Look at the way you're looking
at me. . . .Everyone knows . . .
--- You’re wonderful.
Getting married is a careless
habit. . .
I never did decide to marry
him . . .I’d never seen a
cowbow before --- I'm gonna
end up in Montana.
If one man in all the world can
be found, now or forever, to
know that you did wrong, that
man will have either to
conquer the world as I have,
or be crucified by it.
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
812
WIL
Tennessee
Cat on a Hot
Williams,
Williams: Plays: Tin Roof, Act I
Tennessee
1937-1955
(883-884)
Margaret
Female
812
WIL
Tennessee
Cat on a Hot
Williams,
Williams: Plays: Tin Roof, Act I
Tennessee
1937-1955
(885-886)
Margaret
(Hidden
Monologue,
Brick
responds)
Female
812
WIL
Tennessee
Cat on a Hot
Williams,
Williams: Plays: Tin Roof, Act I
Tennessee
1937-1955
(891-893)
Margaret
Female
812
WIL
Tennessee
Cat on a Hot
Williams,
Williams: Plays: Tin Roof, Act I
Tennessee
1937-1955
(907-908)
Margaret
Female
891.7
CHE
Anton
The Cherry
Chekhov's plays
Orchard.
Chekhov
Trophimof
Male
891.7
CHE
Anton
The Cherry
Chekhov's plays
Orchard.
Chekhov
Lopakhin
Male
891.7
CHE
Anton
The Cherry
Chekhov's plays
Orchard.
Chekhov
Madame
Ranevsky
Female
891.7
CHE
Anton
The Cherry
Chekhov's plays
Orchard.
Chekhov
Madame
Ranevsky
Female
812
HEL
Six Plays by
Lillian Hellman
Karen
Female
812
MIL
The Crucible
The Children's
Hellman,
Hour, Act III
Lillian
(76)
The Crucible,
Act II (54-55)
Mary Warren
(Hidden
Monologue,
Miller, Arthur
Proctor and
Elizabeth
respond)
3
Yes, it's too bad because you
cant wring their necks if
they've got no necks to wring!
. . . !- Of course it's comical
but its also disgusting since it
so obvious what they're up to!
Yep, got th' report just now? it
didn't surprise me, Baby? . . .
You don't take dope. . . .
Brother Man Gooper claims he
exercised his influence t' keep
it from goin' out over AP or UP
or every goddam "P".
Well, sooner or later it's bound
to soften you up. It was just
beginning to soften Skipper
when -- I'm sorry. I never
could keep my fingers off a
sore -- I wish you would lose
your looks.
Brick, y'know, I've been so
God damn disgustingly poor
all my life!- that's the truth,
Brick! Always had to suck up
to people I couldn't stand
because they had money and
I was poor as Job's turkey. . . .
Never should have confessed
it, a fatal error, tellin' you about
that thing with Skipper.
Barbara's afraid we shall go
and fall in love with each
other. Day after day she never
leaves us alone. With her
narrow mind she cannot
understand that we are above
love.
I bought it. Wait a bit; don't
hurry me; my head's in a whirl;
I can't speak. . . .
Why doesn't Leoníd come?
Oh, if only I knew whether the
property's sold or not! It seems
such an impossible disaster,
that I don't know what to think.
...
Please don't go; I want you. At
any rate it's gayer when you're
here.
We're not going to suffer any
more. Martha is dead.
I never knew it before. . . . She
Female never knew no
commandments
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
812
MIL
842
ROS
The Crucible
Cyrano de
Bergerac
812 ING Four Plays
812 ING Four Plays
812
MIL
Death of a
Salesman
812
ONE
Three plays
Also
online
The Crucible,
Act IV (126127)
Cyrano de
Rostand,
Bergerac, Act I
Edmund
(29-31)
Death of a
Salesman, Act Miller, Arthur Willy
II (80-81)
Desire Under
Eugene
http://gutenberg. The Elms, Part O’Neil
net.au/ebooks04/ II, scene 2
0400081h.html
812.5
FRA
The Diary of
Anne Frank
812.5
FRA
The Diary of
Anne Frank
The Diary of
Anne Frank,
Act II; pp. 6869.
842
MOL
Cyrano
Doctor Faustus
John, it come to naught that I
should forgive you, if you'll not
forgive yourself. . . . .It were a
Female cold house I kept. . . .Forgive
me, forgive me, John – I never
knew such goodness in the
world!
Male
Dark at the Top
of the Stairs
William Inge Sammy
Male
(Act II, pp. 270271)
Rubin (Hidden
Dark at the Top
William Inge Monologue,
Male
of the Stairs
Cora responds)
The Diary of
Anne Frank,
Act II, scene 4;
pp. 97-98
822
MAR
Elizabeth
(Hidden
Monologue,
Miller, Arthur
Proctor and
Hawthorne
respond)
Male
Ephraim Cabot Male
Nothing more? Just a fatuous
smirk? Oh come, there are
fifty- score varieties of
comment you could find if you
possessed a modicum of
mind.
I always worry that maybe
people aren't --- telling you
about myself.
I come home here t' apologize
to you . . . --- It's a damn good
job, pays good money.
Business is definitely
business, but just listen for a
minute. You don't understand
this.
Will ye ever know me . . . . ---Are ye any the wiser fur all
I’ve told ye?
Anne (hidden
Goodrich and Monologue,
Hackett
Peter’s lines
(original
and some of
version)
Anne’s are
eliminated)
Look, Peter, the sky. . . .I wish
you had religion, Peter. . .
.Just to believe in something!
When I think of all . . . I know
it’s terrible, trying to have any
Female
faith... when people are doing
such ------I still believe, in
spite of everything, that
people are really good at
heart.
Goodrich and
Hackett
Mr. Frank
(Adapted by
Kesselman)
Male
Doctor Faustus Marlowe,
Christopher
Faustus
The Doctor In
The Misanthrope
Spite of Himself Moliere
and Other Plays
Act III Scene 1
Sganarelle
4
Male
Male
Our last month together. ----All that remains.
Ah, Faustus.
Now hast thou but one bare
hour to live,
And then thou must be
damn'd perpetually!
No, I tell you: they made a
doctor of me in spite of
myself. I had never bothered
my head about being that
learned; and all my studies
went only up to seventh
grade.
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
A Doll's House
839.82 A Doll's House
(Act III, pp. 220- Ibsen
IBS
and Other Plays
222.)
Helmer (Hidden
Monologue)
Male
Nora responds)
A Doll's House
839.82 A Doll's House
(Act III, pp. 222- Ibsen
IBS
and Other Plays
223.)
Helmer (Hidden
Monologue)
Male
Nora responds)
A Doll's House
839.82 A Doll's House
(Act III, pp. 223- Ibsen
IBS
and Other Plays
224.)
Helmer
A Doll's House
839.82 A Doll's House
(Act III, pp. 225- Ibsen
IBS
and Other Plays
226.)
Nora (Hidden
Monologue
Helmer listens)
842
MOL
Tartuffe and
Other Plays
Don Juan Act I
Moliere
Scene 2
Don Juan
842
MOL
Tartuffe and
Other Plays
Don Juan Act I
Moliere
Scene 1
Sganarelle
Driving Miss
Daisy; p. 41
Boolie (Hidden
Monologue;
Daisy responds
and some of
Boolie’s lines
are eliminated)
812
UHR
812
ZIN
812
ZIN
822
POM
839.8
Driving Miss
Daisy
Alfred Uhry
The Effect of
The Effect of
Gamma Rays
Gamma Rays on
on Man-in-the- Zindel, Paul
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon Marigolds
Marigolds
Act I
The Effect of
The Effect of
Gamma Rays
Gamma Rays on
on Man-in-the- Zindel, Paul
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon Marigolds
Marigolds
Act II
The Elephant
The Elephant
Pomerance,
Man, Scene III
Man
Bernard
(5-6)
An Enemy of the An Enemy of
Ibsen
5
We won’t have any
melodrama . . . --- Well, that’s
all over – it must be; from now
on, there’re be no question of
happiness, but only of saving
the ruin of it – the fragments the mere façade.
We’re both saved – both you
and I. --- Nora, I swear it –
I’ve forgiven you.S
Try to calm down and set your
mind at peace --- Not in bed?
Male
You’ve changed your
clothes!S
You've never loved me,
you've only found it pleasant
Female to be in love with me. . . . --That’s what our marriage has
been, Torvald.
What? Do you want us to bind
ourselves for good to the first
object that captivates us, give
Male
up the world for her, and have
no more eyes for anyone
else?
I don't have much trouble
understanding it; and if you
knew this character, you'd find
Male the matter pretty easy for him.
I don't say that he has
changed his feelings about
Dona Elvire,
You know I believe Martin
Luther King has done some
mighty fine things . . .I want to
go . . . I still have to conduct
Male business in this town . . .A lot
of the men I do business with
wouldn’t like it---- Doctor King
will never know the difference,
will he?
Tillie
He told me to look at my
hand, for a part of it came
Female
from a star that exploded too
long ago to imagine.
Janice
I got the cat from the
A.S.P.C.A. immediately after
Female
it had been killed by a highaltitude pressure system.
Treves
Male
Dr.
Male
The most striking feature
about him was his enormous
head.
Gentlemen, Mrs. Stockman,
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
IBS
People
839.8
IBS
An Enemy of
An Enemy of the the People
Ibsen
People
(Act II, scene 2;
p. 95)
839.8
IBS
An Enemy of
An Enemy of the the People
Ibsen
People
(Act III, pp. 122123)
822
SHA
822
SHA
the People
(Act II, scene 2;
pp. 93-94)
Dr.
Stockman
Male
Miss Stockman . . . In other
words, more like Men, more
like a People.
Please one more minute . . . -- The water is poisoned!
They want me to buy the
paper --- prowling like a lion in
the streets!
Look, Doctor: you don't have
to live with this.
All right! I'll take it away! He'll
Equus
Shaffer, Peter Dysart
Male
be delivered from madness.
August
Like you? --- You understand
812 WIL Fences
Troy
Male
Wilson
what I'm saying, boy?
Troy. . .I done known you
Fences, Act II, August
seem like damn near my
812 WIL Fences
Bono
Male
scene 1, p. 62. Wilson
whole life. -- - Rose a good
woman, Troy.
Fences,Act II,
Rose (Hidden
I done tried to be everything a
August
812 WIL Fences
scene 1, pp.
Monologue,
Female wife should be. --- tell me
Wilson
67-68
Troy responds)
something like this.
Fences, Act II,
August
All of the sudden it's we. --812 WIL Fences
scene 1, pp.
Rose
Female
Wilson
That's all you can say to me.
68-69
Galileo (hidden
They used to hug the coasts. .
832
Galileo, scene
monologue,
.By that time . . .You see
Galileo
Brecht
Male
BRE
1, p. 48-49
Andrea
nothing --- Gawking is not
responds)
seeing.
Hm, well at least you have
found out that it. . . . My dear
Galileo (Hidden
man . . . You are also . . . As
832
Galileo, scene
monologue,
Galileo
Brecht
Male much as the truth gets . . .
BRE
7, pp. 84-86
Little Monk
Here is the writ --- I wonder
responds)
how long I shall be content to
discuss it with my dog.
In my spare time, I happen to
have gone over this case. --Galileo, scene
832
Any man who does what I
Galileo
13, pp. 123Brecht
Galileo
Male
BRE
have done must not be
124.
tolerated in the ranks of
sciences.
I have suffered a good deal in
this house. To keep him at
Mrs. Alving
home in the evening -- and at
839.8 Four Great Plays
(Hidden
Ghosts Act I
Ibsen
Female night -- I have had to play the
IBS
by Henrik Ibsen
Monologue)
part of boon companion in his
Manders listens
secret drinking bouts in his
room up there.
Mrs. Alving
I will tell you what I mean by
839.8 Four Great Plays
(Hidden
that. I am frightened and
Ghosts Act II
Ibsen
Female
Monologue
timed, because I am
IBS
by Henrik Ibsen
Manders
obsessed by the presence of
Equus
Equus, Act II
(77-78)
Equus, Act II
(107-109)
Fences, Act I,
scene 3, p. 38.
Stockman
(Hidden
Monologue)
others respond)
Dr.
Stockman
(Hidden
Male
Monologue)
others respond)
Shaffer, Peter Dora
6
Female
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
listens)
812
SIX
The Glass
Six Modern
Menagerie
Williams,
American Plays Scene VI, pp. Tennessee
307-308.
Tom
812
SIX
The Glass
Menagerie
Six Modern
American Plays Scene VI, p.
310.
Amanda
812
SIX
The Glass
Six Modern
Menagerie
Williams,
American Plays Scene VII, pp. Tennessee
328-
Jim
812
SIX
The Glass
Menagerie,
Six Modern
Williams,
Closing
American Plays
Tennessee
Monologue. P.
340
Tom
812
ONE
Four Plays by
Eugene O'Neill
The Hairy Ape,
O'Neill,
Scene 1(256Eugene
257)
Yank
812
ONE
Four Plays by
Eugene O'Neill
The Hairy Ape, O'Neill,
Scene 2 (265) Eugene
Mildred
Williams,
Tennessee
The Hairy Ape,
O'Neill,
Scene 3 (279Eugene
280)
The
The
822 PIN
Homecoming; Harold Pinter
Homecoming
Act I; pp. 39-40.
Collins Complete The Ideal
828
Works of Oscar Husband, Act II Wilde, Oscar
WIL
Wilde
(545)
812
ONE
828
WIL
828
WIL
812
LAW
828
WIL
Four Plays by
Eugene O'Neill
ghosts that I never can get rid
of. . . . Ghosts.
And so the following evening I
brought Jim home to dinner. I
had known Jim slightly in high
Male
school. In high school Jim
was a hero. ---- He was about
to discover that I did.
Now just look at your mother!
This is the dress in which I led
Female
the cotillion. --- And then I met
your father.
You know what I judge to be
the trouble with you?
Male Inferiority complex! --- Think
of yourself as superior in
some way!
I didn't go to the moon, I went
much further -- for time is the
longest distance between two
Male
places -------- Blow out your
candles, Laura – and so
goodbye
Sit down before I knock yuh
Male down! . . . . Yuh're yellow,
dat's you.
Please do not mock at my
Female attempts to discover how the
other half lives.
Male
I scared her? . . .She'll belong
den.
Max (Hidden
Monologue,
Male
Sam responds)
Oh, yes, you are. . . Before he
died Sam --- What have you
done?
Mabel Chiltern Female
Well, Tommy has proposed to
me again.
Yank
Well, I must say Algernon,
The Importance
Collins Complete
that I think it is high time that
of Being
Works of Oscar
Wilde, Oscar Lady Bracknell Female Mr. Bunbury made up his
Earnest, Act I
Wilde
mind whether he was going to
(364-365)
live or to die.
I beg your pardon for
The Importance
Jack (Hidden
Collins Complete
interupting you, Lady
of Being
monologue,
Works of Oscar
Wilde, Oscar
Male Bracknell, but this
Earnest, Act IV
Lady Bracknell
Wilde
engagement is quite out of
(410)
responds)
the question.
When you've been a lawyer
as long as I have -- a
Drummond
Inherit the
Lawrence,
thousand years more or less (Hidden
Inherit the Wind Wind, Act III
Jerome and
Male - you get so you can smell the
Monologue,
(108-110)
Robert E. Lee
way a jury's thinking. . . .
Cates listens)
Someday I'm going to get me
an easy case.
Collins Complete Lady
Duchess of
Don't you really know? {Omit
Wilde, Oscar
Female
Works of Oscar Windermere's
Berwick
Ah, what indeed, dear? That
7
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
Wilde
828
WIL
828
WIL
812
KAU
812
KAU
Fan, Act I (426427)
Lady
Collins Complete
Windermere's
Works of Oscar
Fan, Act III
Wilde
(444-445)
Lady
Collins Complete
Windermere's
Works of Oscar
Fan, Act III
Wilde
(447-448)
The Laramie
Project , Act I;
The Laramie
MOMENT:
Project
Angels in
America; pp.
11-13
The Laramie
Project
812
KAU
The Laramie
Project
812
KAU
The Laramie
Project
812
KAU
The Laramie
Project
812
KAU
The Laramie
Project
(Hidden
Monologue,
Lady
Windermere
responds)
is the point.} {Omit But it's
quite true, my dear.} {Omit
Ah, the dear pretty baby . . .I
really don't know what they
teach them there.} {Omit Oh
all of them . . .better.} {Omit
Yes we begin like that} . .
.And don't make scenes, men
hate them!
Lady
Windermere'
Female
Why doesn't he come? This
waiting is horrible.
Wilde, Oscar Mrs. Erlynne
Female
Believe what you choose
about me.
Moises
Kaufman
Male
I’ve lived in Wyoming my
whole life.. . .Maybe you can
tell him.
Wilde, Oscar
Jedadiah
Schultz
The Laramie
Project , Act I;
Moises
MOMENT:
Kaufman
Matthew; pp.
19-20
The Laramie
Project , Act I;
Moises
MOMENT:
Kaufman
Finding
Matthew; p. 35
The Laramie
Project , Act II;
Moises
MOMENT:
Kaufman
One of Ours; p.
64
The Laramie
Moises
Project , Act III;
Kaufman
pp. 82-83
The Laramie
Moises
Project , Act III;
Kaufman
pp. 95-96
812
HEL
Six Plays by
Lillian Hellman
The Little
Foxes, Act I
(163-164)
812
ONE
Long Day's
Journey Into
Night
Long Day's
Journey Into
Night, Act III
(106-108)
O'Neill,
Eugene
812
ONE
Long Day's
Journey Into
Night
Long Day's
Journey Into
Night, Act IV
O'Neill,
Eugene
Hellman,
Lillian
Romaine
Patterson
(Hidden
Male
Monologue;
others respond)
We never called him Matthew,
actually…..I did hear from
Matthew about forty-eight
hours before his attack ---- he
was really happy about being
there.
Aaron Kreifels Male
Well I, uh, I took off on my
bicycle . . . .
Sherry Johnson Female
I really haven’t been all that
involved . . . .
As the grandmother and the
Ms. Thompson Female person who raised Russell. . .
.
Dennis
Shepard
Male
My son Matthew did not look
like a winner. . . .
Birdie (Hidden
I'd like -- Two things. Two
Monologue,
things I'd like most. . . . Oscar.
Oscar, Regina Female
Please let me have Lionnet
and Ben
back.
interact)
Poor hands! You'd never
Mary (Hidden
believe it, but they were once
Monologue,
Female one of my good points, along
Kathleen
with my hair and eyes, and I
responds)
had a fine figure, too.
To hell with sense! We're all
Edmund
Male crazy. What do we want with
sense?
8
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
(133)
812
GUR
Love Letters and Love Letters;
two other plays pp. 53-55.
812
HWA
M. Butterfly
812
HWA
M. Butterfly
812
WIL
Ma Rainey's
Black Bottom
M. Butterfly Act
I scene i. pp. 12.
M. Butterfly Act
III scene 3. pp.
91-93.
Ma Rainey's
Black Bottom,
Act I (68-70)
Andy (Hidden
Monologue,
Melissa
responds)
AR Gurney
Male
Dear Mrs. Gardner:
David Hwang Gallimard
Male
Butterfly, Butterfly. . . --- I’m
the one who lifts their spirits.
David Hwang Gallimard
Male
I've played out the events. --also know as Madame
Butterfly.
Wilson,
August
Male
Levee got to be Levee!
Levee
The Government of your
country! --- I am going back to
my counting house to pay the
piper an call the tune.
I saved her from the crime of
poverty. . . .The worst of
crimes . . . . He will be better
fed . . . . I was an east ender.
---- we shall have an England
worth living in.
No matter at all if you have no
purpose of your own, and are,
like most men, a mere
breadwinner. . . . . . ___ And it
is all the deadlier because, in
your romanticist cant, they
love one another.
Shaw,
822.912 George Bernard Major Barbara,
George
SHA
Shaw's Plays
Act III, p. 264
Bernard
Undershaft
Major Barbara, Shaw,
822.912 George Bernard
Act III, pp. 277- George
SHA
Shaw's Plays
278
Bernard
Undershaft
(Hidden
Male
monologue,
others respond)
Man and
Shaw,
822.912 George Bernard
Superman, Act George
SHA
Shaw's Plays
I (93-94)
Bernard
Tanner (Hidden
Monologue,
Male
Octavius
responds)
812
CHA
Marty, Act I; p. Paddy
146
Chayefsky
Marty
Male
Hello, is this Mary Feeney? . .
.
Marty, Act II;
pp. 165-166
Marty (Hidden
Monologue,
Girl’s lines and
Male
some of Marty’s
lines
eliminated)
I can recognize pain a mile
away . . . . I’ll tell you some of
my wisdom . . . ----we ain’t
such dogs as we think we are.
812
CHA
The television
plays.
The television
plays.
So. Po po po. I think we
Female should stop here. ---- Well,
that’s that.
"Master Harold"
Which meant I got another
"Master Harold" .
. . . and the
Fugard, Athol Hally
Male rowing for hanging around the
. . and the boys
boys (26)
"servants' quarters."
"Master Harold"
It started off looking like
"Master Harold" .
. . . and the
Fugard, Athol Hally
Male another of those useless
. . and the boys
boys (28-29)
nothing-to-do afternoons.
"Master Harold"
Hello, Mom . . . No,
"Master Harold" .
. . . and the
Fugard, Athol Hally
Male everything is okay here. Just
. . and the boys
boys (48-49)
doing my homework . . . .
Frankie (Hidden
I expect Janice and Jarvis are
The Member of
Monologue,
almost to Winter Hill . . .Jarvis
The Member of
Carson
the Wedding,
Female
the Wedding
McCullers
Berenice’s lies
talked about Granny . . . Did
Act I; pp. 36-38.
are eliminated)
you hear …. They were
812.54
Master Class
MCN
822
FUG
822
FUG
822
FUG
812
MCC
Paddy
Chayefsky
Male
Master Class, Terrence
Act II, pp. 49-50 McNally
Maria Callas
9
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
812 GIB
The Miracle
Worker
The Miracle
Worker, Act II,
pp. 71-72
812 GIB
The Miracle
Worker
The Miracle
Worker, Act II,
pp. 75-76
812 GIB
The Miracle
Worker
The Miracle
Worker, Act II,
pp. 77-78
The Miss
812.54
Firecracker
HEN
Contest
The Miss
Firecracker
Contest
Mrs. Warren's
822.912 George Bernard
Profession, Act
SHA
Shaw's Plays
II (39-40)
812
WIL
Our Town
Our Town,
Act III (107109)
Love! Valour!
A Perfect
812.54 Compassion and
Ganesh (act I,
MCN
a Perfect
172-174)
Ganesh
Love! Valour!
A Perfect
812.54 Compassion and
Ganesh (act I,
MCN
a Perfect
197-199)
Ganesh
talking about whether to vote .
. . She said she thought I was
a lovely size . . .-----She said
to me
Katie, I will not have it!! …
The child practically . . . .What
Keller (Hidden
William
in heaven’s name …. Katie, I
Monologue,
Male
Gibson
did not bring you . . . .The fact
Kate responds;)
is . . . .I want you to give her
notice.
Mrs. Keller, I don’t think
Helen’s worst handicap is
Annie (Hidden
deafness or blindness. . . . Alll
Monologue,
of you here are so sorry for
William
Kate responds;
her . . . . Give up, why, I only
Female
Gibson
eliminate a few
today saw . . . . I mean day
of Annie’s
and night . . . .[For] Everything
responses)
. . . .----You won’t use your
chances and you won’t let
me.
The asylum? …..the graves.
Annie (Hidden
No, it made me strong. But I
William
Monologue,
Female don’t think you need to send
Gibson
Kate responds)
Helen there. She’s strong
enough.
Popeye
I'm Popeye Jackson. . . .Oh,
(Hidden
well it’s not my original name .
Beth Henley monologue,
Female . . Actually the fortunate part
Delmount
is I can now hear voices
responds)
through my eyes.
Mrs. Warren
Everybody dislikes having to
Shaw,
(Hidden
work and make money . . .
George
Female
Monologue,
.but I should have been a fool
Bernard
Vivie responds)
if I'd taken to anything else.
I can't bear it. They're so
Emily (Hidden
young and beautiful. . . Oh,
Monologue,
Wilder,
Mama, just look at me one
Mrs. Webb and Female
Thornton
minute as though you really
young Emily
saw me. . . .I can't. I can't go
interact)
on. . . . I'm ready to go back.
She should have loved me
Man
not just for falling down . .
(Katherine’s
.Instead you waited . . . Six
Terrence
dead son)
Male young men with chains and
McNally
(Hidden
bats . . .I stood there -- But
monologue,
that’s when you waited to love
others speak)
me, Mama.
I had my big chance and blew
it . . . I’d just bought him a
Margaret
Good Humor bar . . .His little
Terrence
(Hidden
face was covered with
Female
McNally
monologue,
chocolate. . . . He was four
others speak)
years old . . . .I’ve never told
anyone about Gabriel –
Comin’ for to carry me home.
10
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
812 WIL
The Piano
Lesson
812 WIL
The Piano
Lesson
The Piano
August
Lesson Act II,
Wilson
scene 2; p. 67
Berniece
The Piano
Lesson Act II,
scene 5; pp.
93-94
August
Wilson
Boy Willie
812 ING Four Plays
Picnic (Act I,
pp.164-165.)
Millie (Hidden
Monologue,
Madge’s lines
William Inge and some of
Millie’s have
been
eliminated)
822
SHA
Pygmalion
Shaw,
Pygmalion, Act
George
II (43)
Bernard
822
SHA
Pygmalion
822
SHA
Pygmalion
The Piano
812 WIL
Lesson
822
SHA
Pygmalion
Shaw,
Pygmalion, Act
George
II (58)
Bernard
Shaw,
Pygmalion, Act
George
V (120-121)
Bernard
Higgins
Male
There! That's all youll get out
of Eliza. Ah-ah-ow-oo! No use
explaining.
Doolittle
Male
Dont say that, Governor. Dont
look at it that way.
Doolittle
Male
It aint the lecturing I mind.
Shaw,
Pygmalion, Act
George
V (138–140)
Bernard
Eliza (Hidden
monologue,
Higgins
responds)
Beneatha
(Hidden
molologue,
Asagai
responds)
812
HAN
A Raisin in the
Sun
A Raisin in the
Hansberry,
Sun, Act III
Lorraine
(116-117)
812 WIL
Plays, 19371955
The Rose
Tattoo, Act III,
scene 2; pp.
Tennessee
Williams
Berniece. . .I be at home and I
get to thinking. . .You know
how I feel about you . . . You
too young a woman to close
up, Berniece.
You trying to tell me a woman
can't be nothing without a
Female man.--- Well you tell me,
Avery—you know—how much
woman am I?
See now. . .I'll tell you
something about me. --- Other
Male
than that, I ain't thinking about
nothing Berniece got to say.
Madge, how do you talk to
boys? . . . How do you think of
things to say?. . . .Supposing
nothing ever comes into my
head? . . . I think he’s a big
show off. . . . And he was
braggin’ all afternoon . ….And
Female he says he used to make
hundreds of dollars . . .
Madge, I think he’s girl crazy.
. . . Alan took us into the Hi
Ho for cokes. . . .Madge, do
you think he’ll like me?. .. .. I
don’t really care. I just
wonder.
Avery (Hidden
Monologue,
Male
Berniece
responds)
The Piano
August
Lesson, Act II,
Wilson
scene 2; p. 66.
I want a little kindness . . . I
could just kick myself.
(Omitting lines by Higgins.
Also omitting Eliza’s lines
Female That’s not a proper answer to
give me and Wring away.
What do I care? I knew you’d
strike me one day.)
Me? . . .Me? . . . Me, I'm
nothing . . . Me. ______ I
wanted to cure. It used to
Female
matter. I used to care. I mean
about people and how their
bodies hurt . . .
Rosa (Hidden
"I don't' think I will---ever see
monologue,
Female you again. .
Jack responds)
… . --- Look for me! I will be
11
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
731-733
there!
822
SHA
Saint Joan, Act Shaw,
VI (138-138)
Bernard
Saint Joan
828
WIL
Collins Complete
Salome, Act I
Works of Oscar
(589-590)
Wilde
Wilde, Oscar
891.7
CHE
Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull,
Plays
Act I (7-9)
Chekov,
Anton
891.7
CHE
Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull,
Plays
Act I (13-14)
Chekov,
Anton
891.7
CHE
Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull,
Plays
Act I (7-9)
Chekov,
Anton
891.7
CHE
Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull,
Plays
Act II (25-27)
Chekov,
Anton
Joan
Yes: they told me you were
fools, and that I was not to
Female
listen to your fine words nor
trust to your charity.
Salome
Jokanaan, I am amorous of
(Hidden
thy body! ________ I will kiss
Monologue,
Female
thy mouth, Jokanaan. I will
Jokanaan
kiss thy mouth.
responds)
Treplyov
Why: She's bored. Jealous.
(Hidden
She's already turned against
Male
Monologue,
me, ________ and suffered
Sorin responds)
deeply from humiliation.
Men and women, the lions,
Nina (Hidden
the eagles and the partridges,
Monologue,
Female the antlered deer . . . .
Treplyov
________ I see his terrifying
responds)
crimson eyes . . .
Treplyov
Why: She's bored. Jealous.
(Hidden
She's already turned against
Male
Monologue,
me, ________ and suffered
Sorin responds)
deeply from humiliation.
Hmm . . . Here you speak of
fame, of happiness, of some
kind of brilliant and exciting
Trigorin
life, _______When I die,
(Hidden
Male those people I knew will walk
Monologue,
past my grave and say: "Here
Nina responds)
lies Trigorin. He was a good
author, but not as good as
Tugenev."
Gorgeous
Let me tell you . . . .Let me
(Hidden
Female finish. . . .I’m not finished!. . .
Monologue,
.----even if he is a fake!
Sara responds)
Sidney Poitier, the future
Jackie Robinson of films, was
Paul
Male
born the twenty-fourth of
February 1927 in Miami . . . .
Can you believe it? Paul
Ouisa
Female learned all that in three
months.
Blanche
You're a fine one to ask me
(Hidden
how it went! _______ I let the
Monologue,
Female
place go! Where were you! In
Stella
bed with your --- Polack!
responds)
812.54 Sisters
WAS
Rosensweig
Sisters
Rosensweig,
Wendy
Act II, scene 2; Wasserstein
pp. 91-92.
812
GUA
Six Degrees of
Separation
Six Degrees of
Separation (22- Guare, John
23)
812
GUA
Six Degrees of
Separation
Six Degrees of
Separation (81- Guare, John
82)
812
WIL
Streetcar
Tennessee
Named Desire, Williams,
Williams: Plays:
Scene 1 (479- Tennessee
1937-1955
480)
812
WIL
Streetcar
Tennessee
Named Desire, Williams,
Williams: Plays:
Scene 4 (510- Tennessee
1937-1955
511)
Blanche
He acts like an animal ---Female don’T hang back with the
brutes!
812
WIL
Streetcar
Tennessee
Named Desire, Williams,
Williams: Plays:
Scene 5 (479- Tennessee
1937-1955
480)
Blanche
(Hidden
Monologue,
Stella
responds)
Well -- if you'll forgive me -he's common. You can have
Female forgotten that much of our
bringing up, Stella
________(Omitting lines by
12
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
Stella, also omitting Blanche's
line: Suppose!) _______ In
this dark march toward
whatever it is we're
approaching . . . .Don't -- don't
hang back with the brutes!
812
WIL
812
WIL
Streetcar
Tennessee
Named Desire,
Williams: Plays:
Scene 6 (5271937-1955
528)
Streetcar
Tennessee
Named Desire,
Williams: Plays:
Scene 10 (5501937-1955
551)
Complete Full812 GIL Length Plays
1962-1999
812
WIL
812
WIL
812
WIL
812
WIL
Blanche
Williams,
Tennessee
Stanley (Hidden
Monologue,
Male
Blanche
responds)
The Subject
Was Roses, Act
Frank Gilroy
II, scene 4; pp.
108-109.
Summer and
Tennessee
Smoke, Part 2;
Williams: Plays:
scene 1 (5871937-1955
588)
Summer and
Tennessee
Smoke, Part 2;
Williams: Plays:
scene 6 (6111937-1955
612)
Tennessee
Summer and
Williams: Plays: Smoke, Part 2;
1937-1955
scene 11 (635)
Tennessee
Summer and
Williams: Plays: Smoke, Part 2;
1937-1955
scene 11 (638)
He was a boy, just a boy ----Female any light that’s stronger than
this kitchen candle.
Williams,
Tennessee
Timmy (Hidden
Monologue,
John’s line’s
Male
and some of
Timmy’s are
eliminated)
This is all I'm going to undress
now. . . .___ I guess we are
both entitled to put on the
dog.
Pop! . . .I don’y want to leave.
. . .But I’m leaving . . . .Listen .
. . .Listen to me . . . .I had that
dream again last night . . .It’s
true you never say . . .I say
them now--- I love you, Pop.---I love you.
Williams,
Tennessee
Alma
Female
Williams,
Tennessee
Alma
How everything reaches up --Female -- but some of us are looking
at the stars!
Williams,
Tennessee
Alma
Female
You know what I mean ----Then the answer is no!
Williams,
Tennessee
Alma
Female
You talk as if my body ---- It's
making me dizzy
Tartuffe, Act III,
Scene 3 (276- Moliere
278)
I’m afraid that you and I ----- I
call it a desecration!
To love eternal beauties far
above Is not to be immune to
other love; _____Accept our
Male
hearts, and you will find, my
dear, Love without scandal,
pleasure without fear.
Father died exactly one year
ago _______ (Omitting other
characters' lines, also omitting
Olga (Hidden
Monologue,
Olga's lines: Don't whistle,
Irina,
Masha. How can you! Yes!)
Female
Chebutykin,
______ And just one dream
and Tuzenbakh
keeps growing stronger and
respond)
stronger, one dream . . .As
soon as possible, off to
Moscow . . .
Tartuffe
(Hidden
Monologue,
Elmire
responds)
842
MOL
Tartuffe and
Other Plays
891.7
CHE
The Three
Anton Chekhov's
Sisters, Act I
Plays
(103-104)
Chekov,
Anton
891.7
CHE
The Three
Anton Chekhov's
Sisters, Act III
Plays
(138)
Chekov,
Anton
Vershinin
891.7
CHE
The Three
Anton Chekhov's
Sisters, Act III
Plays
(140-141)
Chekov,
Anton
If truth were said, our Andrey
Irina (Hidden
has been cut to pieces, lost
Monologue,
Female
whatever depth he had.
Olga responds)
_______ I've lost heart, why
13
Male
Yes . . . How strange
everything is, in reality!
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
891.7
CHE
The Three
Anton Chekhov's
Chekov,
Sisters, Act IV
Plays
Anton
(152)
To kill a
mockingbird ;
812.54 Tender mercies ; Trip to Bountiful
Horton Foote
FOO
and, The trip to p. 179
Bountiful : three
screenplays
To kill a
mockingbird ;
812.54 Tender mercies ; Trip to Bountiful
Horton Foote
and, The trip to pp. 187-188
FOO
Bountiful : three
screenplays
To kill a
mockingbird ;
812.54 Tender mercies ; Trip to Bountiful
Horton Foote
FOO
and, The trip to pp. 211-212
Bountiful : three
screenplays
891.7
CHE
Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya,
Plays
Act I (56)
891.7
CHE
Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya,
Plays
Act I (58-59)
891.7
CHE
Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya,
Plays
Act IV (95-96)
812
WAS
The Heidi
Chronicles and
Other Plays
Uncommon
Women and
Others, Act I,
Scene 4 (24-
I'm still alive, why I haven't
killed myself before now I
don't understand . . .
Oh, where is it, where did it
go, my past life, the time
when I was young and happy
and clever ______ And the
spark of God is extinguished
in them, and they in turn
become the very same pitiful
corpses, each resembling the
other, as their fathers and
their mothers did before them
...
Andrey
Male
Jessie Mae
Excuse me. Do you have a
Female match? ---- That’s all the
children I need.
Mrs. Watts
(hidden
monologue,
Thelma
responds)
I wasn’t in love with my
husband . . .Because his
Female
papa ----- You’re lucky to be
married to the man you love.
Ludie
Male
It’s been so long since I
looked at his pictures. ---- It
doesn’t do any good
remembering.
Yes . . . In ten years I've
become a different person.
Astrov (Hidden
_______ (Omitting Marina's
Chekov,
Monologue,
Male lines, also omitting Astrov's
Anton
Marina
line: No.) ______ Why,
responds)
nyanka, you know they won't
remember!
And the professor, the same
as before, from morning until
deep into the night, sits in his
study and writes. _______
Vonitsky
His second wife, beautiful and
(Hidden
Chekov,
intelligent -- you've just seen
Monologue,
Male
Anton
her -- married him when he
Astrov
was already an old man and
responds)
gave him her youth, her
beauty, her freedom, the
radiance that is hers alone.
And for what? Why?
Well, what do you do then?
Chekov,
Sonya
Female You must go on living! . . . .
Anton
.We shall rest!
I'm so tired. Why doesn't
Wasserstein,
someone just take me away
Muffet
Female
Wendi
from all this? . . . . .I have to
make sure something
14
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
25)
812
WAS
812
WAS
812
MCN
812
MCN
812
MCN
The Heidi
Chronicles and
Other Plays
Uncommon
Women and
Others, Act II,
Scene 5 (5556)
The Heidi
Chronicles and
Other Plays
Uncommon
Women and
Others, Act II,
Scene 6 (6163)
happens to me.
Wasserstein,
Kate
Wendi
Carter, do you think I'm
boring?. . . . .Carter, can I sit
Female
here for a while? I'm
frightened.
Wasserstein,
Holly
Wendi
Operator, I'd like the number
of Dr. Mark Silverstein in
Minneapolis, Minn. . . . . .Well,
Female
thanks for talking to me.
Good-bye. Thank you. I guess
so.
Where Has
Terrence
Tommy Flowers
McNally :
Terrence
Gone? Act I,
collected plays :
McNally
Summer of ’52;
volume II
pp. 92-94
Where Has
Tommy Flowers
Terrence
Gone? Act
McNally :
Terrence
I,Tommy’s
collected plays :
McNally
Mother or I Am
volume II
the Walrus; p.
94
Where Has
Terrence
Tommy Flowers
McNally :
Gone? Act II,A Terrence
collected plays : Quiet Evening McNally
volume II
at Home; pp.
123-124.
Tommy
Male
In the first place, it was a
dumb question. ---- I was
there. Holden wasn’t.
Your father and I certainly
Tommy’ Mother Female enjoyed your last collect call. --Love you, Mom.
Nedda (Hidden
I’d like to ask Tommy if he
Monolgue,
Female loves me . . . .----Do you love
Tommy
me?
responds)
Gregers
(Hidden
monologue,
Werle
responds)
839.8
IBS
Wild Duck, end
Ibsen volume II :
of Act I; pp. 94- Ibsen
four plays
95.
828
WIL
Mrs. Allonby
(Hidden
Collins Complete A Woman of No
Monologue,
Works of Oscar Importance, Act Wilde, Oscar
other
Wilde
II (481)
characters
respond)
Mrs.
Arbuthnot
(Hidden
Monologue,
Gerald
responds)
828
WIL
Collins
A Woman of No
Complete Works Importance, Act Wilde, Oscar
of Oscar Wilde IV (507-509)
812
ALB
Who's Afraid of
George
Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf? Albee, Edward (hidden
Virginia Woolf?
Act II (94-96)
monologue;
15
Male
Let’s not be so particular in
our choice of words . . . . ---When I look back upon your
whole career, it’s as if I were
looking over a battlefield with
shattered human lives strewn
all across it.
The Ideal Man! . . . . it
becomes a woman's duty to
Female forgive, and one can do it all
over again from the
beginning, with variations.
I do not know it! I do not feel
it, nor will I ever stand before
God's altar and ask God's
blessing on so hideous a
mockery as a marriage
Female
between me and George
Harford. . . . . Oh, do not ask
me to do this horrible thing.
Child of my shame, be still the
child of my shame!
When I was sixteen . . .
Male
----That was thirty years ago.
SELECTED PLAYS WITH MONOLOGUES AT SOUTH
Omitting all of
Nick’s lines
and George: I
won’t tell you.)
812
ALB
Who's Afraid of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Albee, Edward Martha
Virginia Woolf? Act III (185186)
Hey, hey . . . . Where is
everybody . . . ? . . . . Martha,
you'll be a songwriter yet.
Female
CLINK! CLINK! CLINK! . .
.CLINK! . . . CLINK! . .
.CLINK!
Olga (Hidden
Monologue,
You see, Crystal Allen is a
The Women, Clare Boothe Mary’s lines
friend of mine . . .It was a
812 LUC The Women
Female
Act 1, pp. 19-20 Luce
and some of
couple od months ago . . . . --Olga’s are
- the landlady says
eliminated)
I took the subway down to the
village ….. I live in a four-story
brownstone . . . . {I}t isn’t an
apartment in the East
The collected
Jerry (Hidden
Seventies . . . . I don’t see
812
plays of Edward Zoo Story pp.
Monologue,
Albee, Edward
Male why they need any
ALB
Albee
21-23
Peter
explanation. . . . You’re a very
responds)
sweet men . . .But that was a
long time ago ----good old
Mom and good old Pop are
frameless.
COUNCIL ROCK HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH LIBRARY
Developed MAY 2004
Updated January 2007
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