Monologue is not Mono

Monologues often sounds mono because there is only one person performing, so it is really easy to get lost on expressing the passage under the context. Along with my fall production going and my lead role growing, I have been feeling more strongly with each day’s rehearsal that monologue is so hard because you have only yourself to remind and remember all different passages and emotions which you want to present. I choose one comedic online and one serious monologue in my fall play in my last acting class project. However, it wasn't as easy as I thought it could be because I had to perform so much more meanings and emotions on the monologue from the play.

I have been practicing my monologue since I got my script in september, but until now I still do not know the best way to deliver it. Picking a monologue in your play is so different from just a monologue standing by itself because when I was giving the monologue speech, I had to consider what happened before and what will happen after. The layer and state of a stage is very important. Based on all of the information from this play I can finally gave the best performance I had. Another struggle I had was dividing my long monologues into small sections and each one of them will be representing a different purpose. All of these small sections get together will direct all the audience to the picture I want them to see which is the building up sadness through the party.

However, when I was on the stage and speaking all by myself, I often get lost the task which I had to stick with. My final production is next week, and I wish before that and then on I can figure out all my layers of emotions and the process which I can bring all the audience to an extremely sad point at the end. Also, I can be more creative with my future monologues and make it not so mono.