Monologues for auditions

Monologues for men

Male roles from the plays, with the situation explained and the text in full. Every one opens in qbuddy with the other characters voiced.

Hamlet · William Shakespeare

Hamlet: "To be, or not to be"

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea…

Hamlet · 275 words · 2 min spoken

Hamlet · William Shakespeare

Hamlet: "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I"

Ay, so, God b’ wi’ ye. Now I am alone. O what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of…

Hamlet · 459 words · 4 min spoken

Macbeth · William Shakespeare

Macbeth: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"

She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,…

Macbeth · 90 words · 1 min spoken

Macbeth · William Shakespeare

Macbeth: "Is this a dagger which I see before me"

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:— I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal…

Macbeth · 232 words · 2 min spoken

Romeo and Juliet · William Shakespeare

Mercutio: the Queen Mab speech

O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an…

Mercutio · 327 words · 3 min spoken

The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare

Shylock: "Hath not a Jew eyes?"

To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgrac’d me and hind’red me half a million, laugh’d at my losses, mock’d…

Shylock · 194 words · 1 min spoken

As You Like It · William Shakespeare

Jaques: "All the world’s a stage"

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His…

Jaques · 211 words · 2 min spoken

Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare

Orsino: "If music be the food of love, play on"

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall; O,…

Orsino · 114 words · 1 min spoken

The Bear · Anton Chekhov, translated by Julius West

Smirnov on women

[Teasing her] Silly and rude! I don’t know how to behave before women! Madam, in my time I’ve seen more women than you’ve seen sparrows! Three times I’ve…

Smirnov · 400 words · 3 min spoken

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