5 Shakespeare Audition Monologues for Young Men

Whether it’s for a drama school audition, college audition or using a shakespeare speech for a professional audition, having a cracking Shakespeare audition monologue is vital.

In today’s blog, I suggest a FIVE Shakespeare monologues that young men can do from Shakespeare.

Now the reason that I’ve put them here, is that I don’t trust those Shakespeare Monologue books, I’ve got them all, and I’ve read them, and I like them, but they’re full of monologues that aren’t actually monologues.  They’re full of monologues that are slight edits, fat parts of dialogue with the other person’s lines missed out.

That’s not a monologue. It is dialogue which is lacking the dramatic structure of a monologue.

These monologues are actually monologues and I’ve provided links to them, so you don’t even need to google them:

ONE: BASSANIO - The Merchant of Venice – Act III, Sc 2.Oh Sweet Portia.

TWO: SEBASTIAN - Twelfth Night - Act IV, Sc 3. This is the air…

THREE: BOLINGBROKE - Richard II – Act II, Sc 3. As I was banish’d…

FOUR: KING  - Love’s Labours Lost. Act 1, Sc.1. Let fame…

FIVE:  HAMLET – Hamlet – Act 1, Sc. 3. Think it no more.

 I hope this stops all the young men just doing Romeo’s Banish-ed speech…

Tomorrow is Shakespeare Monologues for Young Women…

I've recently written a Guide to Drama School Auditions and for blog readers - it's free to download here.