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My monologue choice: how do I know if it is overdone?

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Cory Mbatha

23 Sep 2025

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Love the piece. Suspect three hundred other people love it too.

4 replies

  1. Delphine Aubert

    23 Sep 2025

    If you found it in a "best audition monologues" list, it is overdone. That is a reliable test.

  2. Denise Aguilar

    25 Sep 2025

    Overdone matters less than people say. They are watching you, not the writing. But you are starting from behind if they have heard it eleven times today.

  3. Reeva Bhandari

    27 Sep 2025

    Look for something from a play that is good but not famous, or from a writer who is working now. Contemporary and unfamiliar is the sweet spot.

  4. Sam Oyelaran

    30 Sep 2025

    Two minutes maximum, and cut it yourself so it has a shape. Most people perform an excerpt rather than a piece.

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