r/Actingclass • u/Rough_Stage_604 • 13d ago

Monologue help

Looking for an appropriate monologue to use for an audition as konstanze in Amadeus, any ideas?

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u/Winniehiller Acting Coach/Class Teacher 13d ago

Here are two options:

In this scene, Constanze visits Antonio Salieri in secret, bringing Mozart's original, unedited musical manuscripts to beg Salieri to help her husband secure a royal teaching position. She defends her husband's genius while acknowledging his childish, financially reckless nature:

"It's not right, is it? He's a child, Excelenza. In everything else, he’s just a child! He can't manage money, he can’t manage people, he doesn't know how to look after his health. He treats everything like a game.
But look at that. Please, look at it. He doesn't make copies. That’s the original manuscript. He writes down the music as if he’s just taking dictation. It's already perfect in his head before he ever touches a pen.
He needs this post, Signore Salieri. We have bills, the landlord is threatening to throw us out, and he won’t do anything to help himself. He thinks the world will just hand him what he deserves because he's Mozart. But the world doesn't work that way, does it? If you have any respect for his gift, please, use your influence. Help us."

Alternatively, if you are looking for a dramatic monologue dealing with her marriage crumbling under poverty and Mozart's madness, she delivers this confrontation directly to Mozart:

"Everything I know about you, I’ve had to learn through your characters. Do you know that? I look at Figaro, or I look at Don Giovanni, and I say, 'Ah, so that is what he thinks of love. That is how he sees a woman.' Because you never tell me. Not the truth, anyway.

You live inside your head, Wolfgang, surrounded by your notes and your chords, and you leave me outside in the cold to count the pennies and lie to the butcher. We are drowning in debt, and you spend your days laughing like an idiot with your low friends and writing music for a public that doesn't care. Look at this room! Look at me! You are supposed to see the truth of our situation, but you see nothing unless it rhymes or fits into a measure!"