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.

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.

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 “I Want to Feel Something” 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: #38 I Want to Feel Something

They think I’ve turned into this crazy person who doesn’t care what she does and how if affects her life or the lives around her. But no, that’s not it at all. There’s a reason to my madness. I’m habitually running red lights and running off with strangers on purpose. It gives me a rush. Just embracing the moment and running wild with it, makes me finally feel something. Can’t you understand that? I haven’t felt anything for months…maybe even years. But getting caught up in these moments and doing something wild and unexpected, it makes me feel good, even if it’s fleeting. And right now, I so desperately need any moment where I can feel good. I’ve been run down with grief and sorrow for too long…I want to finally feel again.

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 “Afraid of Everything” 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: #37 Afraid of Everything

I just can’t…I can’t do it. I can’t leave my house and jump in the car, and drive the five miles to the restaurant. I can’t meet my friends there or meet their friends there, because I don’t know what will happen. I can’t do things without knowing what will happen. Because I’m afraid about the unknown and unexpected. I need to have a game plan, and I need to know what’s what. And at the same time I know I’m being ridiculous. I know there’s no way of knowing if something good…or awful…will happen. All you can do is just live life, but that’s easier said than done. I’m…I’m just…terrified that something horrible is going to happen. And I know that something, whatever it is, could be lurking around any corner. So what’s the use in walking out my front door if that something terrible is just out there waiting for me…somewhere along the way?

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 “The Excellent Non-Chef” 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: #36 The Excellent Non-Chef

Some people pride themselves in their ability to cook, being able to make something from scratch—all of the slicing and dicing and stirring and mixing. And not to mention creating a beautiful presentation on a platter. You know, all of that takes a lot of time. All the hours of prep work and then possibly more hours spent monitoring the food as it’s cooking. Making sure you’re stirring something the right amount of times so it doesn’t burn. Moving things over, mixing them around. Taking things out, making them sit. It’s a whole production. And then you only enjoy it for ten or fifteen minutes. Or you can gobble it up that quickly, so it seems like all that time was wasted or it just went by too quickly.

So—I pride myself in my ability to save time. I’m the master of frozen food cooking. No one can preheat an oven quite like I can…I mean, I guess anyone can preheat an oven the way I can. But no one can press those buttons with as much zeal and excitement…yeah… I’m an artist at setting kitchen timers, wandering off and doing other things, then racing back to the room right when I hear those beeping sounds going off—that triumphant sound letting me know that the food is ready. I’m a pro at that.

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 “Grief” 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: #35 Grief

I…I don’t know how to react to this. I don’t know what I can do to help. How do you help someone who just found out they have a terminal illness? There’s nothing you can do. No words can really make anything better. It’s set in stone. There’s a known end date. And I feel so powerless to comfort him at all. I feel like I’m turning into a distant stranger—someone watching his tragedy from far away, thinking about it occasionally. But the reality is that I think about it every day. I think about it too much. And every time I think about his impending doom, I just want to fall to the ground and sob uncontrollably. There’s something comforting in being able to lose control. But I can’t…I’m too terrified to show anyone how torn up I feel inside.

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 “I’m Not a Fool” 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: #34 I’m Not a Fool

Are you kidding me? Who do you take me for? Some idiot who can’t see what’s really going on? I was in love with you…in love…I gave you my all and this is how you repay me? You break my heart and expect me to just let you get away with it. I’m not a fool. I’m not going to let you do this. You can’t do this to me. You can’t…you can’t pretend we never had anything to begin with. We’ve spent years together, we’ve traveled to Spain. We’ve spent summers and winters by each other’s side. We’ve run through rainstorms and have strolled through beautiful autumn days. You can’t just leave that all behind without thinking once about it. All of it had to mean something to you. Unless you’re really a monster who looks at me like I’m a stranger now.

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 “Ideal State of Happiness” 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: #33 Ideal State of Happiness

Before I found you, and before I could admit that you were the love of my life, I remember life was a dull, drab thing. It felt like I was a hamster running on a wheel. Every day I went through the motions, but I never really got closer to accomplishing much of anything. My love life felt the same way. I’d go on dates with different men, but they never went anywhere. I couldn’t find a moment that meant anything until I met you. You, the man who made me feel so nervous and giddy with excitement every time we went out during those first few months. And you know what? You still make me feel that way. When we’re walking home after dinner, and you reach for my hand, I still get that nervous jolt of excitement. Even after all this time – years and years of dining out and handholding, yet it still feels new every time. And that’s my ideal state of happiness – that feeling you give me that feels familiar and brand new all at the same 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 “It’s Not Rocket Science” 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: #32 It’s Not Rocket Science

I can’t stand it when people use that phrase, “it’s not rocket science.” I mean, come on! When someone tells me that a job at an accounting or law firm isn’t “rocket science,” it drives me crazy. Because they are insinuating that the job isn’t difficult. Well you know what? There are plenty of difficult positions out there, that aren’t the same as being a rocket scientist or engineer or whatever, but they are difficult in their own way. Using that cliché of a phrase undermines the work. I vote that we revise that phrase, and use “it’s like rocket science” instead—because every job or task has it’s own set of challenges.