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's a monologue for Oct:

pumpkin slime

Pumpkin carving is okay as long as someone else gets the guts out of the pumpkin. And by guts, I mean the slimy innards of pumpkins – the stringy whatever that is and the seeds. What is it exactly that creates the slime? There’s stringy stuff and seeds inside a pumpkin. Grandma knits. Her stringy yarn doesn’t have slime all over it. We buy sunflower seeds from the store. They come in little packages and there’s no slime. None. But you open up a pumpkin and there’s slime. It’s been out growing in the sunshine! There has been rain but since we had to water our garden most of the summer, I think there hasn’t been enough rain to create that much slime inside a pumpkin. The pumpkins we get from the pumpkin patch do not have worm holes in them. There are no slugs in the pumpkin so the slime isn’t coming from slugs. Oh, no. I just thought of pumpkin slime and slug slime and that made me think of barfing. And barf is slimy and gross. Oh, no! I’m not close enough to the bathroom! Something not slimy, something happy. Let me think – hamburgers, pumpkin pie, playing in the sprinklers during a hot summer day, riding bikes really fast down Summerset Hill, sledding down Summerset Hill during the winter… (changing from happy to scared) crashing at the bottom of Summerset Hill – Ow – not only crashing but hitting my head on a rock or a tree, and then my brains splatter like slimy innards of pumpkins. Oh, no! That’s what pumpkin slime is: pumpkin brains. I’m going to cry… and be sick! (exits running)