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 are monologues for Feb, Mar and Apr (with parents permission and if you want, record it on Facebook Live on my FB page or just share the recording on that page once you're done. I would love to see your performance. Please don't worry about word-perfect. I just recorded one of my own monologues and missed several words; Keep in character; Keep going!):

Just a Flick

​My brother was teaching me how to fly a frisbee. He said I just had to flick my wrist. (tries it) I tried but I was terrible; it was more like flinging for me. Tyler made me run after any frisbees that didn’t reach him. I flicked it. Nope another fling. Run, run, run. Try again. Flick? Nope. Run, run, run. Then Tyler made me bring the frisbee to him. So now I was flinging, running, handing off to him and running to my original spot. My brother showed me several times. His flicks would make that frisbee soar. His aim was perfect. If I didn’t catch it – which was every time – I had to run get the frisbee. Big bro insisted on the running so we didn’t waste any time. Just as my mom pulled into the driveway, he let it fly. This time I stepped right in front of it so I wouldn’t have to run. Bam! That frisbee hit me right in the eye. I had to lie down on the couch with a cold washcloth over my eye and Tyler had to read to me. Lying there resting, I decided that running wasn’t so bad; I’m going to try out for track.

PLAIN OLD POPCORN

​My mother who likes to experiment with food likes to play around with popcorn. I don’t mind when she makes something like caramel corn, but she makes Italian popcorn; I’d rather have spaghetti. She makes hot and spicy popcorn; I don’t like spicy food. She has one that she calls “Southwest,” even though we’re nowhere near Texas. The problem is she gets rewarded for making this stuff. She sells it at our local farmer’s market. We’re not on a farm. Why does she do this to me? But one day, I was over at my friend’s house and his mother brought out plain old buttered and salted popcorn. I started sobbing, I was so happy. My friend’s mom brought me water and patted my back. Then I ate one piece of popcorn at a time, until it was all gone. My friend’s mom called my mom before I went home. The next thing I knew, Mom wasn’t making unique popcorn anymore. I still wish I hadn’t complained. Mom makes plain old popcorn for movie night, but now she makes us watch unique movies, followed by discussions. I don’t dare complain about the movies. What if my mom starts making something else “unique”?

World traveler

I thought about traveling the world. Books and videos about different countries make it sound exciting. Until you research a bit more.
Don’t the pyramids of Egypt sound exciting? Ride a camel through the sand until you get to a pyramid in the middle of a desert. But then you find out about the deadly cobra. You could find them in your shoe, after it bites you and you up and die.
Instead of pyramids, what about Australia with all its wildlife? The cuddly koala, jumping kangaroos, and flocks of parakeets? But then you find out about those hungry crocodiles. Don’t even go into a puddle of water. Watch out for the deadly copperhead snake. While you’re at it, don’t die by shark.
How about India? Instead of a camel you could ride an elephant. But watch out for tigers; people are good eating to a tiger. And what about India’s snakes? Yes, more snakes! Avoid the saw-scaled viper, if you know how.
No snakes in Ireland. I’d love to visit the castles and go walking through the countryside without fear of snakes. What is there to fear in Ireland? How about leprechauns and pookas and all sorts of magical creatures that love to lure humans to their death.
No traveling for me! I’m going to stay right here and learn about other countries through the internet. I’ll be safe.
Wait. What was that? Was that an earthquake? I’m going to be an astronaut and live in outer space.