Short Monologues for Actors

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You may want to monologue. I use this word as a verb and a key to opening up my imagination–priming the pump, the development of a new character or a new fictional anything. Who’s there, right there, somewhere from your past? Close your eyes. Picture him. What made you remember this person? He was good looking or not good looking at all–amazingly ugly? He talked too much. He didn’t talk at all? Something makes you remember this person. Something personal, maybe…a warm, fuzzy feeling or a tinge of fear or regret. But we don’t have to tell. We don’t need to tell. He’s your memory. Nobody else’s. And you need a protagonist. But right now, your gears seem to be stuck. So put yourself into this person. Go ahead. Find him first, develop this character, then twist him to fit your needs.  Read more... (507 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

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Summer’s here and you are committed to a new group of children for summertime fun. Maybe it’s a camp.   Could be a Sunday School summer session. A summer school, even. You know that there will be a lull in their daily schedule that will need to be filled and kids can get very restless when they are bored. You need a plan.  Read more... (446 words, 1 image, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

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Sometimes you can’t wait around for your muse to strike. You are a new writer and you need a plan. Of course you already have your writer’s discipline plan in place. You sit at your computer at that special time that you have designated as your most creative time. It may be early in the morning, after lunch or late at night. No matter. You have learned that if you are a writer, you write. You are poised with your fingers on the keyboard–but nothing happens. The page stares daring and blank right back at you. Do something about it.  Read more... (290 words, 1 image, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

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Actors, stop your whining and work those ruby red slippers. The scene is the venue chosen for auditions for a production you’d give your eye teeth to be a part of. The foyer is packed with actors in line, signing up with their bios and their head shots, names,  dates, phone numbers, times of availability and the list goes on and time is ticking away. They are casting for the Ten by Ten–an evening of ten short plays and the competition is fierce. Let’s get on with it. You go into the theatre in blocks of eight or ten and sit where you are told to sit if you are auditioning.  Read more... (453 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

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Are you depressed?  Just lost your job?  Broke? Worried about tomorrow?  Then do something.  Dance.  No, it‘s not a girlie thing.  Men dance, too. You may not want to.  You may want to sit in the corner and eat worms until things get better?  But that won’t help.  Do something that will help. If you don’t live alone, make it a family thing.  Have some fun together in the hard times. Dance.  Read more... (498 words, 1 image, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)