Kids Monologue of the Month

Tips for preparing a monologue:
  • Imagine the person you're speaking to. If you're supposed to be speaking to the audience, imagine who they are--friends? enemies? the doorman?
  • Imagine where you are and the things that are around you.
  • Create a set by using real objects that are handy--chairs, benches, fake tree, etc.
  • You can use real objects for props, too--book, wallet, football, etc.
  • Be expressive--get mad or happy or sad or just have some attitude as you perform your monologue.
  • Movement & Gestures--use them. Don't just stand still while doing a monologue.
If there are stage directions—in parenthesis—in the monologue below, use them or come up with your own. They're just suggestions. If a monologue has ellipses (three dots in a row), act as if you’re listening to someone else responding or speaking to you.
Break a leg! (That's theater talk for "good luck." It's bad luck to say "good luck" in the theater so you say "Break a leg!")
​Here is a monologue for August:

MOM PULLED THE PLUG

Mom Pulled the Plug
“Read a book,” said Mom.
“Not yet,” I told her.
“You’re not doing anything,” she said.
“I’m working on technology,” I told her.
“You’re playing a computer game. Why don’t you read a book instead?” She said.
“That would take a couple of hours,” I said. “I don’t have that kind of time.”
“Come outside and we’ll get the yard cleaned up,” she said.
“That would take longer than reading a book,” I exclaimed.
“Let’s do that puzzle your grandma gave you for Christmas,” she said.
“Oh my gosh,” I said, “that puzzle has 500 pieces and it’s 3D. It’ll take days.”
“You’ve been playing this game all morning!” Mother practically screamed. “You didn’t even come down for breakfast.”
“I ate,” I said.
“When?” she asked.
“Last night, and I was snacking this morning too,” I said. “Now, please, let me concentrate. I’m finally on Level 129.”
“So you’ve been playing this game all night?” Oh, she was sneaky, knowing my concentration was on the game.
“Yeah,” I said.
Mom unplugged my laptop. I slipped and told her the battery was working fine, and I forgave her. See? I was only concentrating on the game. Mom took my computer into her room and hid it before I could react. In fact, she was so fast that she came back to my room with a book and threw it at me.
“There will be a test in two hours,” she said.
“But…” I started to say.
“And you better pass,” she said with her teeth gritted.
So now I’m just stretching before I start reading the last chapter of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I think I’ll pass mom’s test but I refuse to let her think I liked the book.