Recommended by Asher Wyndham

  • RELAPSE (MONOLOGUE)
    10 Aug. 2023
    Talking directly to us as if we're friends at a birthday party, ADAM RICHTER wins us over with this chatty character while revealing backstory and its lasting impact on this character's emotional life and health. The turn at the end may seem inevitable but it was surprising and sad. This is one of my favorite monologues on NPX. Playwrights - read this, study it. Everyone else - produce it.
  • world is a fuck
    10 Aug. 2023
    Wow, wow. You might not relate to these two teen characters at the start but by the end...you want to fuck things up just like them. Empathy and understanding for their situation in the American suburbs was surprising for me. The playwright reminds us that for the Queer community the personal is always political and it's a wake-up call to LGBTQ+ that the fight is not over because it's not an exaggeration our enemies want to destroy us - not necessarily physically but systemically/structurally. And the language - full of f-bombs - reaches insane intensity. Bravo!
  • F*#@ Edward Gordon Craig
    9 Aug. 2023
    This physical monologue -- any gender can play this one, I think - is just perfect for an auditioning actor. A tour-de-force of ridiculousness and conceit -- in one page! -- that will leave any audience in stitches.
  • Afterwards (a monologue)
    4 Aug. 2023
    Sickles does the unexpected: a character admitting their wrong, their ugliness and doing better, being better. We need more of that on stage. Only a page, only a minute, but the discussion would be much longer.
  • Chestburster (a monologue)
    4 Aug. 2023
    Rarely do plays present an experience/expression of joy. More like this! Beautiful monologue.
  • Commandments - 10 Minute Play
    25 Jul. 2023
    Schoffel knows how to structure a ten-minute play. She ratchets up the tension with side-splitting results! I'd love to a scene where Harper meets her bf's parents.
  • Remote Control - 10 Minute Play
    25 Jul. 2023
    This would be a perfect scene for study in Intro to Acting. Schoffel raises the volumes and pushes all the right buttons and switches the channels with hilarious results while exploring masculinity, male friendship and communication.
  • Don't Let Them See You
    25 Jul. 2023
    A compelling monologue on the systemic racism's impact on cultural identity, parenting and family life and schooling, and how influences the future. The themes of the monologue sit with you, with weight that you can feel in the speaker.
  • There It Is
    24 Jul. 2023
    These monologues work as interior monologues or soliloquies or even as ruminations that audience members overhear as if they're in earshot like a stranger at a bar, bus stop. These can be produced without setting/place, a bare stage/Zoom screen, but they can be given scenic design, why not? - it's open to interpretation by director and actor. The fragmentation of thought captures the speaker's melancholy, tedium of existence, and longing that at times is really funny. And relatable.
  • Severed Hand [Monologue]
    24 Jul. 2023
    An ingenious way to explore disability from the perspective of a body part. Surprisingly funny and emotional. It would be an unexpected treat for an audience to see a hand as character. A scenic and lighting designer would have a fun time. Focus on hand, not actor's body - director and actor would have a fun challenge.

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