Practicing Audition Monologues - Monologue examples

Okay, I'm going to show you a sample monologue, which when you go to do your monologue, you simply have to introduce the title and the author. You don't need to go into any description about the monologue or the character, and this is a monologue from "The Wool Gatherer, by William Mastrosimone. You may think it's funny, but I was the last one to see them alive. There were only seven of them in the world, and the zoo had four of them. I used to go there every night just to watch them standing so still in the water, and they moved so graceful in slow motion, and the their legs were as skinny as my little finger; long legs, and there were only seven of them in the world, because they killed them all for feathers for ladies hats or something. And one night, this gang of boys came by, with the radios to their ears, and cursing real bad, you know; f'in everything, and I was, you know, scared. Well, they started saying things to me, you know; dirty things and laughing at the birds, and then one kid threw a stone to see how close he could splash the bird, and it, and the bird's leg bended like straw, and they all started throwing stones at the birds, and I kept screaming stop it, stop it. And a stone hit a bird's leg and it bended like straw, and the bird keeled over in the water, and there were white feathers flapping on the water, and the kids kept laughing and throwing stones, and I kept screaming stop it. But they couldn't hear me; not through that ugly music on their radios, so I ran and got the zoo guard, and he got his club and we and we ran back to the place to the birds, and the kids were gone. There were big pools of blood on the water, and the white feathers, and the water was still, like the world stopped. The cops came, and they gave me a needle to make me stop screaming, and the zoo guard slapped me, I mean not mean, but just trying to make me stop screaming, and they never caught that gang, but even if they did, you can't make the birds come alive again. They killed the birds, and nobody cares, nobody.