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I have a student who is looking for a specific type of monologue for his SETC audition - he is drawn to serious-issue docudrama (i.e. plays based on true stories). He's considering something from "The Laramie Project" but is afraid it is too overdone. 

His back up is a cutting from Paul's monologue in "A Chorus Line," but again, very well-known. 

Can anyone help with suggestions for docudramas we might look at?

Thanks!

Tim Price wrote a one-man piece called 'Protest Song', about the Occupy London movement. The character is a male, previously homeless, who gets caught up in the events of the weeks of the movement that occupied an area in front of St Paul's Cathedral. Tons of monologue material available from that, and likely mostly unheard of over here, so that might be a good bet.

Here's the link to the Amazon page for it:

Protest Song (Modern Plays)

I have a student who is looking for a specific type of monologue for his SETC audition - he is drawn to serious-issue docudrama (i.e. plays based on true stories). He's considering something from "The Laramie Project" but is afraid it is too overdone. 

His back up is a cutting from Paul's monologue in "A Chorus Line," but again, very well-known. 

Can anyone help with suggestions for docudramas we might look at?

Thanks!

Try The Exonerated

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

and also Talking to Terrorists

talking to terrorists robin soans

Both are verbatim pieces.

I have a student who is looking for a specific type of monologue for his SETC audition - he is drawn to serious-issue docudrama (i.e. plays based on true stories). He's considering something from "The Laramie Project" but is afraid it is too overdone. 

His back up is a cutting from Paul's monologue in "A Chorus Line," but again, very well-known. 

Can anyone help with suggestions for docudramas we might look at?

Thanks!