The Love of Three Oranges excerpts: Competition & classroom friendly comedic monologues

I should have done a post on this ages ago because it's long been a FAQ. You want to perform Three Oranges in some kind of shortened setting, maybe a drama competition, classroom scene practice or some kind of 1-Act or scene festival. But where to begin? To keep this post from getting insanely long, I'm going to split this into two posts. Up in this post? Monologues!

Ah, monologues. The staple of auditions, drama classes and drama competitions everywhere! (Obviously, we're...