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I'm competing in Literary Meet this year under dramatic interpretation. Basically, this means I need to find a monologue from a fairly classic play (basically, anything someone with a lit degree would have heard of) to perform.
I have ten minutes to introduce the monologue and perform. I can take a really good scene and turn it into a monologue, since the length requirement is difficult.
Acting info for me: I do excellent character work. Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, big hero type roles, I don't do so good with those. They're usually too basic and I play them like a cardboard cutout. Give me something a bit off-center, though, and I do fantastic stuff with it. I'm considering taking one of Iago's monologues from Othello, but I fear it is too classic . . .
Can anyone help? I've been reading plays for four weeks now looking for something good.
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If you really want monologues, you could try kissing a whole bunch of people. But I don't know why you'd want it.
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I'm not sure how long it is. But I vaguely remember a speech that Tyler Durden gives in Fight Club. That could be really cool. You might have to edit it for vulgarity.
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If you think Iago is too classic, you may not want to do anything Shakespearean, but there is an excellent piece in I Henry IV by Falstaff about the nature of honor. It's in Act V Scene I.
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