The ultimate audition book: 222 monologues, two minutes and under

Arden of Feversham

Friar Bacon / Robert Greene

The resurrection / The York Pageant of Carpenters

A chaste maid in Cheapside / Thomas Middleton

All for love: or the world well lost / John Dryden

Epicoene / Ben Jonson

The innocent mistress / Mary Pix

The lady of pleasure / James Shirley

Learned women / Molierre

The plain dealer / William Wycherley

The rival queens / Nathaniel Lee

The royal mischief / Mary Delarivier Manley

Sir Patient Fancy / Aphra Behn

Tartuffe / Molierre

The tragedy of Sophonisba / John Marston

Venice preserved; or, a plot discovered / Thomas Otway

Volpone / Ben Jonson

The witch of Edmonton / William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford

The beggar's opera / John Gay

The careless husband / Colley Cibber

The castle spectre / Matthew G. Lewis

Douglas / John Home

Fatal curiosity / George Lillo.

The jealous wife / George Colman

Know your own mind / Arthur Murphy

The London merchant; or the history of George Barnwell / George Lillo

The lying valet / David Garrick

The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Slaves in Algiers; or, struggle for freedom / Susanna Haswell Rowson

Three weeks after a marriage / Arthur Murphy

The tragedy of Jane Shore / Nicholas Rowe

The way of the world / William Congreve

The West Indian / Richard Cumberland

Altorf / Frances Wright

Arms and the man / George Bernard Shaw

The bear / Anton Chekov

Bertram: or, the castle of St. Aldobrand / Charles Robert Maturin

The Colleen Brawn / Dion Boucicault

The doll's house / Ibsen

Ernest Maltravers / Louisa Medina

The family legend / Joanna Baillie.

The female enthusiast

Sarah Pogson

The forest princess; or, two centuries ago / Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes

Ghosts / Ibsen

The great Galeoto / Jose Echegaray

John Gabriel Borkman / Ibsen

Lady Windermere's fan / Oscar Wilde

Masks and faces / Charles Reade

Mrs. Warren's profession / George Bernard Shaw

The philanderer / George Bernard Shaw

Pillars of society / Ibsen

Salome / Oscar Wilde

Smiles and tears; or, the widow's stratagem / Marie-Therese DeCamp

The ticket-of-leave man / Tom Taylor

Uncle Tom's cabin / George L. Aiken

The bonds of interest / Jacinto Benavente

Egon and Emilia / Christian Morgenstern

Enemies / Maxim Gorky

The florist shop / Winifred Hawkridge

The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neil

The man who married a dumb wife / Anatole France

A man's world / Rachel Crothers

Miss Lulu Bett / Zona Gale

On vengeance height / Allan Davis

Servitude / Eugene O'Neil

Torches / Kenneth Raisbeck.

The web / Eugene O'Neil

The women / Clare Booth

Business lunch at the Russian Tea Room / Christopher Durang

The Danube / Maria Irene Fornes

Desire, desire, desire / Christopher Durang

The end of the day / Jon Robin Baitz

Gemini / Alberto Innaurato

Imperceptible mutabilities / Suzan-Lori Parks

Keely and Du / Jane Martin

Look back in anger / John Osborne

The marriage of Bette and Boo / Christopher Durang

Moonlight / Harold Pinter

Park your car in Harvard Yard / Israel Horovitz

Songs of love / Romulus Linney

The substance of fire / Jon Robin Baitz

Summer / Jane Martin

The taking of Miss Janie / Ed Bullins

The value of names / Jeffrey Sweet

Victory on Mrs. Dandywine's island / Lanford Wilson

Vital signs / Jane Martin

Dr. Faustus / Christopher Marlowe

Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay / Robert Greene

Herod the great / The Wakefield Pageant

The Spanish tragedy / Thomas Kyd

The Alchemist / Ben Johnson

The doctor in spite of himself / Molierre

The lucky chance / Aphra Behn

The relapse; or, virtue in danger / Sir John Vanbrugh

The sad shepherd / Ben Jonson

Cato / Joseph Addison

The group / Mercy Otis Warren

Julia of Louvain; or, monkish cruelty / J.C. Cross

The Kentish barons / Francis North

The tragedy of tragedies; or the life and death of Tom Thumb the Great / Henry Fielding

The Witlings / Frances Burney

Black-ey'd Susan / Douglas Jerrold

De Montfort / Joanna Baillie

An enemy of the people / Ibsen

Francis the First / Fanny Kemble

The importance of being earnest: a trivial comedy for serious people / Oscar Wilde

Manfred / Lord Byron

The night before the trial / Anton Chekhov

On the harmful effects of tabacco / Anton Chekhov

On the high road / Anton Chekhov.

Peer Gynt / Ibsen

Presumption; or, the fate of Frankenstein / Richard Brinksley

The proposal / Anton Chekhov

Rosmersholm / Ibsen

Swan song / Anton Chekhov

Two roses / James Albery

When we dead awaken / Ibsen

Widowers houses / George Bernard Shaw

The gambler / Klabund

The game of chess / Kenneth Sawyer Goodman

The lower depths / Maxim Gorky

Thirst / Eugene O'Neil

Ulysses / Stephen Phillips

The Zykovs / Maxim Gorky

American Buffalo / David Mamet

The birthday party / Harold Pinter

The boy who ate the moon / Jane Martin

The captivity of Pixie Sheridan / Romulus Linney

Dejavu / Joh Osborne

Edmond / David Mamet

Epitaph for George Dillon / John Osborne

For whom the Southern belle tolls / Christopher Durang

Imperceptible mutibilities in the third kingdom / Suzi Lori Parks

Jack and Jill / Jane Martin

Middle-aged white guys / Jane Martin

Road to Mecca / Athol Fugard

Tango / Slawomir Mrozek

Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett

The widow's blind date / Israel Horovitz.