100 OVERDONE MONOLOGUES

Please note the majority of these monologues are overdone because they are great, and that “overdoneness” should not trump great writing when choosing material.
However, please know that many of these monologues are so well known, that some auditors could recite them along with you.
Some auditors have no problem with over-and-often-done material, and some do. If possible, it is strongest to do great material that we don't hear a lot.

Piece % of Play/Musical Creator/ Character Style

overdo Playwright/
Acting ‘To be or not to be’ ne100 I Hate Hamlet Originator
Rudnick Andrew Monolgoues for Men
Anal probe speech 100 Passion Fish *Film* Sayles ? Monologues for Women
babbling old witch 100 Glass Menagerie Williams Tom Monolgoues for Men
I know I am pretty 100 Reasons to be Pretty Neil Lebute -- Monologue
But I do think it is their husband’s faults if their
wives do fall 100 Othello Shakespeare Emelia Monologues for Women
Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead,
lying in a box with the lid on it? 100 Rozencrantz and Guildenstern
Stoppard
are Dead Rosencrantz Monologues for Men
I left no ring with her: what means this lady? 100 Twelfth Night Shakespeare Viola Monologues for Women
I want you to f*** me in that car of yours 100 Loose Knit Rebeck Margie Monologues for Women
I was in the latrine. 100 Biloxi Boxes Simon Monologues for Men
I won’t cook for you til you marry me 100 House of Blue Leaves Guare Bunny Monologues for Women
I would have destroyed myself for this woman.
Gladly. I would have eaten garbage. 100 Boys' Life Korder Phil Monologues for Men
In thenight,
Last beginning, there
right from thewere
start,dinosaurs..."
I knew I was 100 Pterodactyls Silver Todd Monologues for Men
bombing... 100 I Hate Hamlet Paul Rudnick Andrew Monologues for Men
My mistress with a monster is in love 100 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare Puck Monolgoues for Men
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words! 100 Two Gentlemen of Verona Shakespeare Julia Monologues for Women
O what a noble mind is here o’erthrown 100 Hamlet Shakespeare Ophelia Monologues for Women
Oh don't go! (Pause, smiles uncomfortably at the
audience.) Maybe someone else will come out in
a minute. 100 Actor's Nightmare Durang George Monologues for Men
Then I see Queen Mab hath been with you 100 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Mercutio Monolgoues for Men
This morning a bird woke me up. 100 The Fantasticks Tom Jones and Harvy Schmdt
Louisa Monologues for Women
To be or not to be 100 Hamlet Shakespeare Hamlet Monolgoues for Men
Well, Tommy has proposed to me again. Tommy
really does nothing but propose to me..." 100 An Idea Husband Oscar Wild Mabel Monologues for Women
Woman on phone saying “Shit, shit” 100 Dead Man's Cell Phone Ruhl Jean Monologues for Women
Yelling at the jock strap in the wash 100 A... My Name is Alice Silver Woman Monologues for Women
You know what you want better than me George 100 Chapter Two Simon Jennie Monologues for Women
Girl in the flak suit” speech 100 Sexual Perversity in Chicago
David Mamet Monologue
How happy some o’er other some 100 A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare Helena Monologues for Women
Peter Pan monologue 100 Dentity Crisis Durang Jane Monologues for Women
Do you know Charlotte Korman? 90 Last of the Red Hot LoversSimon Jeanette Monologues for Women
I loved someone, too, and the person I loved I lost.
He was a boy, just a boy..." 90 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Blanche Monologues for Women
I would not be thy executioner 90 As You Like It Shakespeare Phebe Monologues for Women
Jerry and the dog 90 Zoo Story Albee Jerry Monolgoues for Men
Think not I love him, though I ask for him 80 As You Like It Shakespeare Phebe Monologues for Women
Moving to New York City 80 Suburbia Eric Bogosian Jeff Monolgoues for Men
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow 80 Macbeth Shakespeare Macbeth Monolgoues for Men
Always be closing” speech 70 Glengarry Glen Ross ? Blake Monologue
I am not mad, this hair I tear is mine… 70 King John Shakespeare Constance Monologues for Women
Night flight to San Francisco… 70 Angels in America Kushner Harper Monolgoues for Women
Now is the winter of our discontent 70 Richard III Shakespeare Richard Monolgoues for Men
O Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? 70 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Juliet Monologues for Women
Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg (Mason): "I've
been watching baseball nonstop since the day I
was told you were coming to me..." 70 Take Me Out Greenberg Mason Monologues for Men
Thou, Nature, art my goddess 70 King Lear Shakespeare Edmund Monolgoues for Men
Thus do I ever make my fool, my purse 70 Othello Shakespeare Iago Monolgoues for Men
bird in the hand 70 PIcasso at the Lapin Agile Martin -- Monologues for Women
If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well 70 Macbeth Shakespeare Macbeth Monolgoues for Men
Is Brutus sick? And is it physical 70 Julius Caeser Shakespeare "" Monologues for Women
O what a rogue and peasant slave am I 70 Hamlet Shakespeare Hamlet Monolgoues for Men
O yet, more
Once for God’s sake,
into the go notdear
breach to these wars!
friends once 70 Henry IV Pt. 2 Shakespeare Lady Percy Monologues for Women
more 70 Henry V Shakespeare Henry Monolgoues for Men
You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand 70 Merchant of Venice Shakespeare Portia Monologues for Women
Bores you?! Bores you?! -- Try working for you for
a living! 60 Red John Logan Ken Monologues for Men
Mr. Cornell, ah have tried to be neighborly 60 Star Spangled Girl Simon Sophie Monologues for Women
And why,what
But soft, I pray you?
light Who might
through yonder bewindow
your mother 60 As You Like It Shakespeare Rosalind Monologues for Women
breaks? 60 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Romeo Monolgoues for Men
I don't know how old I was when they put me in
the orphanage. 60 Nourish the Beast Tesich Bruno Monologues for Men
I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two 60 Merchant of Venice Shakespeare Portia Monologues for Women
My liege I did deny no prisoners 60 Henry IV Pt. 1 Shakespeare Hotspur Monolgoues for Men
Nor for yours neither. You’ve ungently Brutus 60 Julius Caeser Shakespeare Portia Monologues for Women
Set down, set down your honourable load 60 Richard III Shakespeare Anne Monologues for Women
Speak the speech 60 Hamlet Shakespeare Hamlet Monolgoues for Men
The quality of mercy is not strain’d 60 Merchant of Venice Shakespeare Portia Monologues for Women
Thenthe
Was I confess, here wherein
hope drunk on my knee
you dressed 60 All's Well that Ends Well Shakespeare Helena Monologues for Women
yourself? 60 Macbeth Shakespeare Lady Macbeth Monologues for Women
Coach built
Father speaking to kids
sandbox for dying mother to watch 50 Rounding Third Dresser Coach Monolgoues for Men
kids 50 Key Exchange Wade Lisa Monologues for Women
Since what I am to say 50 The Winter's Tale Shakespeare :: Monologues for Women
Sir, spare your threats 50 The Winter's Tale Shakespeare Hermione Monologues for Women
When a man’s servant shall play the cur 50 Two Gentlemen of Verona Shakespeare Launce Monolgoues for Men
Alas my lord I have been so affrighted 50 Hamlet Shakespeare Ophelia Monologues for Women
Alas poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio 50 Hamlet Shakespeare Hamlet Monolgoues for Men
All the world’s a stage 50 As You Like It Shakespeare Jaques Monolgoues for Men
And what’s he then that says I play the villain? 50 Othello Shakespeare Iago Monolgoues for Men
Do you really not know me, Howie? Do you really
not know how utterly impossible that would be?
To erase him?..." 50 Rabbit Hole Lindsay-Abaire Becca Monologues for Women
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears 50 Julius Caeser Shakespeare Antony Monolgoues for Men
Gallop apace, you fiery footed steeds 50 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Juliet Monologues for Women
Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord 50 Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare Cressida Monologues for Women
I am what became of your child 50 Night Mother Norman Jessie Monologues for Women
Is this a dagger I see before me 50 Macbeth Shakespeare Macbeth Monolgoues for Men
This day is called the feast of Crispian 50 Henry V Shakespeare Henry Monolgoues for Men
What studied torments, tyrant hast for me? 40 The Winter's Tale Shakespeare Paulina Monologues for Women
Who will believe thee Isabel 40 Measure for Measure Shakespeare Angel Monolgoues for Men
All Prologues 40 Henry V Shakespeare Chorus Monolgoues for Men
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion 40 As You Like It Shakespeare Orlando Monolgoues for Men
Even as one heat another heat expels 50 Two Gentlemen of Verona Shakespeare Proteus Monolgoues for Men
Happy Birthday. Do you like it? (abortion speech) 40 Loose Ends Weller Paul Monolgoues for Men