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!
​GIFTS
(a phone is on a small table or floor; a chair is in the center; throughout the monologue the character paces and sits, paces and sits, while thinking) Six dollars. Only six dollars.
I have to get a present for Mom, Dad, and Cynthia. That’s two dollars each. Let’s see. I could get all of them a book. Oh, wait a minute. Even paperbacks are more than a $2.00 Besides, I don’t know what they like to read.
If I combine Mom and Dad’s into one gift, I can get something for $4.00. I know. I’ll get them a big bag of candy. Hey, I can say it’s for all three of them. Then I’ll have $2.00 left.  Wait a minute, if I buy them their favorite candy bar, that’s only $1.00 each. Only $3.00. That will leave me with $3.00.
(into phone) Okay, Sam, I’ve got enough to go to Burger & Fries Ville with you. Let me ask my mom. (calls) Mom, can I go with Sam to Burger and Fries Ville? I have my own money.
(listens; calls) Where’d they go, Cynthia? (listens) Christmas shopping? (into phone) Sam, I better not go. My folks just went major Christmas shopping and I have to save my money for gifts. Talk to you later. Bye.
What can I get for $6.00? (calling) Hey, Cynthia, let’s get Mom and Dad a present together. How much do you have? (exits)