The boys have been mostly in charge of the world for a long time now, and look at it. Everyone knows it, no one wants to say it. Or everyone pretends to want world peace. That's all human beings are! Just blind people. (she asks abruptly through her tears) Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? - every, every minute? (she sighs) I'm ready to go back. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths? and sleeping and waking up. Good-bye to clocks ticking? and Mama's sunflowers. Good-by, Grover's Corners? Mama and Papa. Take me back - up the hill - to my grave. (she breaks down sobbing, she looks around) I didn't realize.Īll that was going on in life and we never noticed. We don't have time to look at one another. She speaks in a loud voice, forcing herself to not look at her mother) I can't. (pause, looking desperate because she has received no answer. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, his appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. She speaks with mounting urgency) Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me. (pause, talking to her mother who does not hear her. Why did they ever have to get old? Mama, I'm here.

Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire Signet Books, 1951, pp.95-6. By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty–which wasn’t empty, but had two people in it… the boy I had married and an older man who had been his friend for years… I didn’t know anything except I loved him unendurably but without being able to help him or help myself. He was in the quicksands and clutching at me–but I wasn’t holding him out, I was slipping in with him! I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that. I didn’t find out anything till after our marriage when we’d run away and come back and all I knew was I’d failed him in some mysterious way and wasn’t able to give the help he needed but couldn’t speak of! There was something different about the boy, anervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s, although he wasn’t the least biteffeminate looking–still–that thing was there…. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me. All at once and much, much too completely. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery–love. He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. Photo: presta from Tufts University's Cohen Auditorium / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 Which female stage monologues do you think would impress a theater director the most? Let Tennessee Williams, Thorton Wilder, and Oscar Wilde help you to land the stage role of your dreams. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Our Town, and A Streetcar Named Desire all contain some of the best female monologues ever. There are also several of the most popular American plays in the history of stage represented on this list of female monologues. The power-hungry Lady Macbeth will not be ignored. Of course, there are a couple of intense dramatic monologues from Shakespeare. These monologues from plays all feature three-dimensional females with space for an actress to show off her character talent. They include a couple hidden theater gems as well as several famous female monologues, good for either Broadway or the local playhouse. These 15 powerful female monologues for auditions are a great place to start the journey. It’s audition time and you’re looking for the perfect monologue.

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