100 Monologues is a project where I’m writing monologue scripts, performing, and filming the pieces. Since I’m beginning to dabble in acting, the project is meant as a means for me to acquire more acting experience where I can work on refining my craft. You can find out more about the project here.

Below is the script from the “Autumn” monologue. If you’re a student who would like to perform this monologue for class, just make sure you credit me, Maggie Coyle, as the author. For any other use of the script, please contact me.

100 Monologues: #39 Autumn

This time of year, all I can think of are all those great memories I have from cool afternoons in autumn. As a kid, when the leaves turned colors and fell from the trees, I’d play in those piles of color. I’d tie together stems of leaves to make leaf necklaces and leaf crowns, and wander through the yard pretending to be royalty. I lived in this enchanted world in my imagination, where I was like a fairy princess living in a colorful world that Mother Nature created just for me. I would spend hours playing outside—taking breaks to sip hot chocolate or apple cider. And I remember the smells of pumpkin when I’d carve jack-o-lanterns to decorate our porch steps, and I’d spend hours making my own costumes for Halloween. It was a time of year when my imagination burned brightly. And I like to think back to those times of creative freedom fondly…it was a time when everything had so much possibility, and there was so much room to grow. And then I start thinking about how much I need to think that way now—to live in the present and know that there are endless possibilities in everything around me.