The Difference
The maid of honor stands up to toast her best friend and the groom at the rehearsal dinner. She has an index card with a safe, cute speech on it. She has also had two glasses of wine and a secret she has kept for eleven years.
Monologues for Women
Female roles across ages and tones. Teenagers, twenties, forties, and seventies. Drama, comedy, and everything between.
7 scripts. All free to read, print, or download as PDF.
Acceptable Range
A retired nurse gets three minutes at a town meeting to argue against closing the local clinic. The council has a report full of numbers and a hospital forty minutes away. She has one night from 1986 that she has never stopped timing.
The Chicken Timer
Ninety minutes into divorce mediation, Renee interrupts the fight over the house to ask for a broken kitchen timer shaped like a chicken. Her ex thinks she is being petty. She explains, to him and the mediator, exactly what it was for.
Five Years From Now
Nora is interviewing for a job she does not want and cannot afford to lose. The interviewer asks where she sees herself in five years. She decides to answer honestly, and the answer keeps going.
The Night Before Basic
Lena's older brother leaves for basic training at dawn. She sneaks into his half-packed bedroom to say the thing she has been avoiding all summer. A fight in June is standing in her way.
Reasons I Cannot Attend
June has won a school award and would rather do anything than collect it on stage. She has brought the counselor a list of reasons. The real one is not on the list.
Monologues
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What the Garden Knows
Ruth's son has arrived with a folder and a plan to sell the family home. She wants him to leave the house, and her late husband's roses, alone. But every argument she reaches for is one she has already lost.