The phrase "alternating monologues" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two or more speakers take turns delivering their thoughts or speeches, often in a dramatic or theatrical context.
Example: "The play featured alternating monologues that allowed the audience to hear both characters' perspectives on the conflict."
Alternatives: "interchanging monologues" or "back-and-forth monologues".
The back-and-forth makes e-mail one of the few remaining forms of interpersonal communication that is delivered in alternating monologues — the only place where the high-school-essay writing style can prevail.
Mr. Baitz's two-hander is told in alternating monologues delivered by an American businessman -- plagued with guilt for selling questionable baby formula to third-world countries -- and his equally troubled wife.
As the 21st-century dawned, Mr. Foote wrote "The Carpetbagger's Children," a play in which three grown daughters of a carpetbagger look back over their lives and the 20th century in alternating monologues.
Written in alternating monologues, the play concerned five people in a New York bar reminiscing about the 60s and the downward spiral of their lives since the days of youthful idealism – something Donner must have understood.
As for the complications of the play itself — in which the two men largely deliver alternating monologues about events, particularly a brutal crime that helps sunder their friendship — both men described the rehearsal process as unusually exhausting.
In this tautly organized work, He (John Boyd) and She (Julie Jesneck) narrate their own lives in alternating monologues that detail the grueling and mundane process of making a living.
It is more formal in its structure, a series of alternating interior monologues, and more pointed in its cosmic concerns.
The 90-minute play features Ms. Vega alternating between monologue and songs, backed by two musicians, recounting McCullers's complex life.
The idea is that, if you turn the book upside down and swing it around every eight pages, you can alternate the monologues of its two narrators, Sam and Hailey, so as to spin them together.
She spends most of the play bedbound and silent, listening to Mr. Gets deliver Kemp's pitiful, pitiless monologues, alternating expressions of polite interest, disapproval, dismay and occasionally fear.
His short, clipped dialogue is often suffused with suspicion, while his monologues alternate between recrimination and dreams of longing or annihilation.
