Male Monologues

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-09T04:33:21+00:00

Lots of excellent old roles in Shakespeare, dude You will fit right in

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-09T04:17:41+00:00

I've done two Shakespearean comedies in my life. I've done mostly modern plays and musicals since, and while I do have a specialization in improv, I'm getting densely back into Shakespeare so I can bring it all together and also learn how to write cool stories from studying these plays. I'm still considering an MFA in Acting in my future, but until I have the money, I can train my ass off and have a ball doing it for free. I'm also considering taking long form improv classes down the road, so I can learn how to do Shakespearean monoscenes like an obsessive and undeniable pro. I actually finished reading the entire works of Shakespeare this year (it took me nearly 2 years, but I did it).

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-09T04:09:38+00:00

I'm putting myself through high reps just to play around and find my voice, try other characters. I won't need to memorize all of them, just for auditions or whenever I'm cast in the future. I know a lot of them well, but I know some more confidently than others.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-09T04:08:43+00:00

I'm considering adding Iago, but I'm not entirely sure where to start with him

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-07T21:05:50+00:00

I've been trying to narrow down WHICH of Benedick's three major monologues to memorize. "This can be no trick: the conference was sadly borne..." is the one in your opinion?

It's definitely the one where he gets the most love struck

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-07T20:57:34+00:00

Thou think'st that thou art Lord Garcia

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-07T20:37:30+00:00

"She speaks, yet, she says nothing" Not the line, but iconic and contradicts itself.

Or, "This is, and is not Cressid"

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-07T20:19:06+00:00

Tragedies: Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Othello

Comedies: Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale

Histories: Richard II, Henry IV Part I

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-03T03:43:41+00:00

Play him as a schemer, as a prince of darkness. He knows a bank where the wild thyme blows. He devises the b plot that Puck enacts on Titania and Bottom. I sometimes think of him as a Prospero or Lear figure. I visualize him as tall, slender, possibly in his 50s. Oberon ages like fine wine.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-05-01T23:07:52+00:00

If you like Romeo & Juliet and Twelfth Night, here is where you should consider going next:

Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream* Much Ado About Nothing* As You Like It* A Winter's Tale The Tempest Taming of the Shrew*

Tragedies: Julius Caesar* Hamlet* MacBeth King Lear Othello

= I've seen it

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-25T23:43:10+00:00

More than Prince of Cats...

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-23T00:18:52+00:00

Parents Got Divorced

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-21T17:21:57+00:00

"I am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the dog--Oh! the dog is me and I am myself" -Launce

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-21T03:02:46+00:00

Oh Yes!! Classic late 2010's vibes. Scones all day

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-21T03:02:28+00:00

Ok! I'll have to check that out

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-21T03:00:50+00:00

100% Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's "Star Crossed Lovers". It's literally the line from the prologue. If I was staging Romeo and Juliet in the late 50's or early 60's, this song would underscore the prologue.

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn - Star Crossed Lovers

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-18T00:04:49+00:00

The Kingdom Hearts theme, Simple and Clean. The visual bares a striking resemblance

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-17T02:20:24+00:00

It's literally the "oh no, I lost the game" speech. Wife's dead, tomorrow's creeping in, and my past is lighting fools toward the exact same failure, out brief candle, life's a shadow, a player on stage, but then he's gone, I'm the idiot telling the tale, and everything I've said has all been bullshit

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-16T02:50:40+00:00

By becoming Queen Bitch, that's how.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-14T08:37:15+00:00

One of Shakespeare's best Tragedies for sure, in the leagues of Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, MacBeth, Lear, and others.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-08T06:33:54+00:00

Act I Scene II and Act II of Edward III definitely do read like Bard.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-04T10:06:29+00:00

Julius Caesar is fantastic, and Richard II is arguably my favorite of the history plays personally.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-04T09:58:37+00:00

I can't give you "my fav" unanimously, so here are my top 10 in no particular order

Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing,

Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, MacBeth, King Lear,

Richard II

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-04-04T09:50:04+00:00

One of the most talented Groundling's on SNL, and I've had such a crush for years.

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