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!")

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​Here is a monologue for Sept. Have fun!

Me Vs. The Fly
(sneaking on with a fly swatter in hand; quietly) Little fly, where are you? Oh, I see you. Don’t move. (sneaks over to an area and slaps down with the fly swatter) I missed! Now where did that fly go? (looks around) There it is! I’ll just be real still and wait until that fly lands. (acts as if watching a fly land; whispers) I’ve got you now. (sneaks over to another area and slaps with the swatter) Missed again! (swings swatter through air vigorously) I’ll get you while you fly! I’ll knock you right out of the air! You’ll be sorry you messed with me! (stops swinging) Hey, I think I got it. (acts as if seeing the fly buzz around) No, I didn’t. (swinging wildly again) Are you laughing at me? Come back here! (runs off while swinging fly swatter all around)