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 “Snow Days” 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: #43 Snow Days

I used to love snow days as a kid. I loved it whenever I’d open up the blinds in my room and see several inches of snow covering the world around me. I’d curl up back in bed, pull the covers up over my head, and go back to sleep for several hours. Whenever I woke up again, I’d just lounge around the house in my pjs—just taking my sweet time with life. And whenever I got tired of lounging, I’d just bundle up and go outside in the cold. Having snowball fights and building forts with my friends. And whenever I got tired of the cold, I’d come back inside. Take off my snow-covered gloves and let them dry on the radiator. Then I’d just drink hot chocolate and watch time move by real slow.

As an adult, I still love snow days. It’s all too easy to get caught up in work. I’m usually moving too fast to ever slow down and enjoy the world around me. And snow days allow me to do just that. They give me an unexpected day off to just sit back.

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 “Gardens” 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: #42 Gardens

Whenever I think of gardens, I think of love. I got my first kiss when I was in a garden. I was sitting on a park bench. Whenever things were going really well for me, I had a tendency of going outside, just looking around me and soaking in all that beauty—all that beauty from nature. I would look up at the sky, see the way the sunlight reflected off the leaves on trees. And I remember feeling overjoyed by how beautiful everything was. And now when things aren’t going the way I want them to, I find that it always helps, it always does, if I just go outside, lay down on the grass, look up in the sky and just overjoyed that breathe it all in. Just admire all that beauty. When I do that, I’m able to momentarily forget what’s going on now, what’s going on in my immediate future. Because I start feeling so I get to appreciate such beauty every day.

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 “Just Breathe” 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: #41 Just Breathe

I’m driving myself crazy. I’m just letting everything get to me. It gets so overwhelming when you think about everything all at once. All the stress, all the pressure…the fact that I’m working at a job I don’t even like. The fact that I’m working somewhere I can’t stand just so I can pay rent…it’s tragic. And I don’t know if you heard, but the other day when I was walking down the street—I just started thinking about everything in my life that wasn’t going the way I wanted it to. Just all that unhappiness that’s been brewing…and I had trouble breathing. I started feeling dizzy and before I knew it, I just collapsed. And that’s the first time my body has ever told me, “hey, I don’t like this!” My body actually rejected the way I was feeling. So when your body is shutting down, I guess it was just trying to tell me—“hey, just breathe, just take a moment, just take each moment one step at a time.”

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 Failing Relationship” 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: #40 The Failing Relationship

It’s been over for a while now. Who are we kidding? We’re just actors on a stage pretending to be happy and in love since we’re so used to living out the same performance day after day. But it’s not the same. We spend more time apart than we ever have before. I don’t feel the same excitement I used to feel every time you got home. Let’s face it…we aren’t trying to impress each other any more. And I’m pretty sure the nights when you come home late at night, you are busy trying to impress someone else. We need to end this before more time passes. Because the longer we kid our selves, the more difficult it will be to start our lives over.