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 3 monologues for Apr, May and June (sorry so late!). Have fun!
​GROSS
(sitting in chair or at a desk as if in a school room, reading or writing on paper; reacts as if someone coughed; looks as though watching another student ) Ew. Charlie should cover his mouth when he coughs. Poor Lisa will probably catch whatever he has since she sits right in front of him. (looks elsewhere) Did Marcy really just lick her finger to rub something off the desk? She did it again! Gross! I am not ever leaning on her desk. There's got to be a million germs there now. (looks elsewhere) That was Casey leaving the room. I bet he touched the doorknob. His hands are always dirty. I'm not leaving this room unless someone else opens the door first. (sneezes and hides nose behind hands) Oh, no! Snot came out. What do I do? If I go up and get a tissue, everyone will see me hiding my nose. Maybe if I just...(leans down as though trying to hide; uses sleeve or bottom of shirt to wipe nose; sits up straight and starts working again).