Monologues

There is no substitute for practice. Learn your monologues well so that your audition is the best it can be.

Classical

BENEDICK: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

PUCK: A Midsummer Night’s dream by William Shakespeare

ISABELLA: Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton

ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE: The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

ANTONY: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

HELENA: All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

EDMUND: The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

JULIET, ROMEO: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet byWilliam Shakespeare

OBERON: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

RICHARD II: Richard the Second by William Shakespeare

IMOGEN: Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

MRS. PINCHWIFE: The Country Wife by William Wycherley

LADY ANNE: The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare

PROSPERO: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

JULIA: The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

ANA: Life after George by Hannie Rayson

APRIL: Company by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

MEG: Away by Michael Gow

BEN: Strangers in Between by Tommy Murphy

BILLIE: Love Child by Joanna Murray-Smith

ANNA PETROVNA: Wild Honey by Michael Frayn based on a play by Anton Chekhov

DOUGLAS: Europe by Michael Gow

EDDIE: Fool For Love by Sam Shepard

GWENDOLEN, CECILY, JACK WORTHING: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

SATCHEL: The Narcissist by Stephen Carleton

LUCY: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Adapted by Clark Gesner from the comic strip by Charles M. Schultz

JOE: Nailed by Caleb Lewis

WOMAN: The Seven Stages of Grieving – Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman (NOTE: This monologue is intended for a First Nations performer)

PHUONG: Market of Lives by Duong Le Quy (NOTE: This monologue is intended for an Australian Vietnamese performer)

FRANKIE: Flood by Chris Isaacs

RICHARD: Walking Into the Bigness by Richard Frankland (NOTE: This monologue is intended for a First Nations performer)

GRACE: FOB by David Henry Hwang (NOTE: This monologue is intended for a Chinese performer)

THERESE: Mr. Bailey’s Minder by Debra Oswald

LEO BLOOM: The Producers by Mel Brooks

JASMINDER: Melbourne Talam by Rashma N. Kalsie (NOTE: This monologue is intended for an Indian performer)