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.