David always feels honored when actors ask him if they may use his speeches for auditions, it is because of this that he wishes to make a selection of his unpublished monologues available to the public .
Be advised he encourages the use of these monologues for audition and acting class purposes ONLY. Performing this material without the playwright’s consent is copyright infringement.
Send us an email and let us know how it went: stallingswrites@gmail.com
| ANAÏS NIN GOES TO HELL Copyright ©2007 2 Act Full-Length (6 Women; 1 to 2 Men) Imagine an island in hell where Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, and Queen Victoria...wait for their men. What happens when women's lib icon Anaïs Nin arrives to turn their afterlife upside down? David Stallings’ new comedy, Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell explores the question of whether Sartre was right and hell really is other people, or whether we carry around our potential for damnation or salvation within ourselves. MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN CHARACTER: Heloise—Age: 30s. Twelfth Century nun. She is in her early thirties and wears a severe nun’s habit. She is of notable intelligence and has a morose sense of humor. DOWNLOAD HELOISE MONOLOGUE CHARACTER: Joan of Arc—Age: 20s. Prophet. She is a tiny woman in her twenties-thirties with the hair-cut of a boy. She is a loopy nut with paranoid schizophrenic tendencies. |
| BARRIER ISLAND (Part of the Galveston Cycle) Copyright ©2009 2 Act Full-Length (4 Women-5 Men) As a fearless and stubborn community rests their lives against the historic wall that protects Galveston Island from natural disasters, a younger generation challenges the emotional disasters no wall can protect. MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN CHARACTER: Laura—Age:early-mid 30s. Attractive and strong, if at times cold—has hidden warmth. DOWNLOAD LAURA MONOLOGUE CHARACTER: Susie—Age: mid 50s.Bright and bubbly with sass. DOWNLOAD SUSIE MONOLOGUE --- MONOLOGUES FOR MEN CHARACTER: Trey—Age: early-mid 30s, smart although not well spoken. He yearns for more. |
| A DAUGHTER OF ISRAEL Copyright ©2008 MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN CHARACTER: Noa Shiller—Age: 18-20. Beautiful and tiny; in love with her boyfriend. |
| A SONG FOR SAINT MICHAEL'S (Part of the Galveston Cycle) Copyright ©2009 2 Act Full-Length (6 Women-3 Men) A schoolboy's death stirs the people of Galveston Island after the devastation of Hurricane Ike. With the help of a transferred priest, a young witness could tilt the balance from confusion to truth; but drowned secrets have kept Saint Michael's Catholic School afloat all these years. MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN CHARACTER: Kay Patel—Age: Mid 30s; Caucasian, the school Counselor. CHARACTER:
Sister Mary Barbara—Age: Mid-late 60s; an older woman of beauty with a seductive charm. |
| ARPEGGIO Copyright ©2007 MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN CHARACTER: Gerry—Age:Mid 20s-early 30s. Attractive with an obsessive personality. MONOLOGUES FOR MEN |
| DECEIVING CHANCE Copyright ©2006 2 Act Full-Length ( 5 Women-4 Men) Untrustworthy Elliot has finally grown out of his ways and decides to share his life with Chance, to only find out that he might already be engaged to a specimen of the female kind. Matters only get worse when he ventures upstate to confront him at his family estate. Bunburying meets the 21st Century in this modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. MONOLOGUES FOR MEN |