13 Dramatic Monologues for All Ages

13 Dramatic Monologues for All Ages offers topics that include school pressure, affection, haunted past, responsibility, hope and laziness.

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13 Dramatic Monologues for All Ages

Land of the Forgotten

• Genre: Drama
• Character: George
• 1-minute monologue
• George spends another day at the park relaxing and enjoying the sun.  When he meets a young woman named Kim that reminds him of his daughter.

Checking In

• Genre: Drama / Family Drama
• Character: Rob
• 1-minute monologue
• Rob was abandoned when he was just a little boy.  Many years have passed and he is now a young man searching for his father with troubling news.

Grain of Sand

• Genre: Drama / Suspense
• Character: Sasha
• 1-minute monologue
• Sasha learns that her brother has been getting bullied and decides to do something about it.

Let The World See Us

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Simon
• 1-minute monologue
• Simon is at a crossroads in life because he isn’t sure if he should sell his business or not.

Spirit Forward

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Dasana
• 1-minute monologue
• Dasana does her best to encourage her boyfriend’s talents and dreams.

Nothing Matters

• Genre: Drama / Family Drama
• Character: Amber
• 1-2 minute
• Amber has a different approach to coping with her erratic emotions.

The Arrangement

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Hardwicke
• 1-2 minute monologue
• Hardwicke talks to his contractor through a monologue metaphor for life and death.

Of Distance Run

• Genre: Drama / Family Drama
• Character: Clark
• 1-2 minute monologue
• Clark can’t believe that his deceased father left everything to his half-brother instead of him.

Siren in the Night

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Crystal
• 1-minute monologue
• Crystal lives on the street and has a run in with her former friend’s father at a gas station.

Dream Light

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Eugene
• 1-minute monologue
• Eugene shares the story of how he came to become friend with a mouse in a restaurant kitchen.

Fall No Further

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mel
• 1-minute monologue
• Mel isn’t well and she tries to find a deeper understanding with one day saying a final goodbye to her husband.

Midst of Summer

• Genre: Drama / Family Drama
• Character: Mama
• 1-minute monologue
• Mama is having the most difficult time trying to come to terms that her beloved son is getting married.

The Other Half of Madeline

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Madeline
• 1-minute monologue
• Madeline holds the family secret as to how her daughter died while she was just a baby.