But I didn’t mind, no, I didn’t mind until I overheard a group of my friends making crass unkind comments about my family. I can’t tell if you’re coming or going. Do you know the difference, or is there only one way for you? It’s away, right? I heard that Marilyn Monroe was discovered in a soda shop and I thought for sure it could be like that. So I started goin’ out real young and I was always secretly lookin’ for who was gonna discover me. Was it this guy? Or maybe this one? I never knew. Here, here, or here? His fingers were cold where they touched-no, prodded-me. His pokes left little indentations all over my body because there was no life in my skin.

They wondered aloud who belonged to those people. It was me. I should have said so. I should have said that my mother took an extra shift so I could have a new coat every year.This fantastic monologue has the potential to hit home in the drama genre, especially when executed correctly. It will work well for females in their late teens or twenties, depending on the audition role. ‘

And I decided on that day that I was Undine Barnes, who bore no relationship to those people. I told everyone my family died in a fire, and I came to accept it as true.

Humorous Comedy Solo Scripts

Really take the time to think through the text. Read the script or watch the film and get a sense for the overall story. How does your monologue fit in the overall story? Lana has done her friend a favor by allowing her to crash at her place but it turns out to being bittersweet You can’t do that. The rules are different here. Don’t you understand? There isn’t enough pity to go round. Young women need the Prom. It’s a rite of passage as sacred as getting your driver’s license or buying your first bra. There are only a few things in life that are guaranteed to be glorious and memorable and sparkling with gowns and cummerbunds. Prom is the quintessential teenage experience. But she doesn’t listen. She’ll sit there watching ‘Jeopardy’ and bad-mouth my dad. The same speech I’ve been hearing since he left.