Questions for Monologuers


  1. Who are you talking to?
  2. Who does this person remind you of specifically?
  3. Why?
  4. Where is this happening?
  5. Are there other people around, overhearing this? What kind of private or public space are you in?
  6. When is it happening? What time constraints are facing you?
  7. What do you start off trying to accomplish by talking to this (person/people/self/etc.)
  8. What resistance are you facing?
  9. How will you know when you’re overcoming this resistance? How will you know when you are being successful here?
  10. What’s at stake here?
  11. What do you discover while talking?
  12. How does that change you?
  13. What has this person or other people said about the subject you’re dealing with here?
  14. What have other people in this play said about you (true or false) that give you an indication of how you deal with things?
  15. How would you describe how you are approaching this (person/people/self/etc.) at the top of the piece?
  16. How does this approach change as you make discoveries in the piece?
  17. Where exactly does that change occur? At what exact moment?
  18. What piece of music would put your character in the frame of mind to talk about all of this?
  19. If you were to create an analogy of this experience physically, an activity (bull fighting, rolling a rock up a hill, painting a picture, etc.) what would be analogous to this experience?
  20. What kind of experience does this remind you of in your own life?
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