As an actor, at some point, you will have to perform monologues. It's just the way it is. The audition monologue in particular is rough. As an actor you have to bring your character, the other character, the arc of the play's narrative, and the environment you exist in to life with no aide outside of yourself.
Richard Seyd has asked me to bring a couple monologues into class so that he can get a sense of where I'm at. It looks like I'm going to do a piece from "Biloxi Blues" by Neil Simon and another from "Spring Storm" by Tennessee Williams. These are the same pieces I used for the TBA (Theater Bay Area) general auditions. I honestly feel like I should have better pieces than this, but I've done these two more than any others so they are my go-to pieces.
So the moral of the story is: Always have a few monologues ready, and for goodness sakes don't wait around until you need them to get them ready - because if you do you'll end up going back to the same dried up well.
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