20 Powerful Plays for Summer Reading for Producers

20 Powerful Plays for Summer Reading for Producers shares a new collection of scripts for anyone interested in reading and producing theatre.

Here at Monologue Blogger, we’d like to make a few summer reading suggestions you may like from our Published Plays.

Where can I find published plays for summer reading?

Monologue Blogger has hundreds of play scripts you can enjoy during the summertime. A series of drama and comedy plays are frequently published each week on the platform.

Confliction

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Sheila
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Sheila talks about the loneliness of her marriage and the delusion of hope when it comes to loving someone completely.
• Monologue Snippet: “I could never make things work with John. Well, I did love him, but things evolve, people change, I changed, he changed, every damned idiot changed around us – and not always for the better, but we remained married because we hoped it would get better.” ~Sheila
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Petals From a Rose

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Clifford
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Clifford has always loved Margaret, but his mental fragility has caused him to slip away into his own darkness, ruining their chance of love.
• Monologue Snippet: “I watched you fret as my heart bled, until eventually you left. ” ~Clifford
• [Read Full Monologue]

As If She Were Medusa

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Delilah
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Delilah fears her sister’s temper tantrums and unstable emotions.
• Monologue Snippet: “I am no sister of hers, no, especially on days when I peer into her eyes and all I see is a deep abyss of hatred. ” ~Delilah
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Otto and Sandra

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Sandra
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Otto and Sandra love one another, but their work schedules don’t seem to mesh well for their relationship.
• Monologue Snippet: “Otto? Or are you taking advantage of me, for who I am, what I represent, what I believe in?” ~Sandra
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All That Matters Most

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Clyde
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Clyde tries to keep himself emotional restrained as he explains to his wife that they may be losing their home.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t want to sell our home, especially after how hard we worked to get here, but it’s a matter of survival. I thought things would kick back by now but things keep holding on and holding on and business is suffering and now.” ~Clyde
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You Were Never There

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Faye
• Duration: 1-2 -minute monologue
• Description: Faye’s dad shows up at her job trying to develop a better relationship with her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Making me feel like I’m supposed to pretend the past never existed. I can’t start that way! I can’t act like that!” ~Faye
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A Lifetime Supply of Sunshine

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mr. P
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Mr. P alludes to the fact that something terrible is approaching a humble family.
• Monologue Snippet: “A home is where we spend most of our time, it seems. Where we try to relax and be our true selves, say the things we wish to say, do the things we wish to do, behave in the ways that the outside world will never get to witness.” ~Mr. P
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Doll and the Dog

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Irene
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Irene confides in Gregory as a way to connect with him on a deeper level.
• Monologue Snippet: “Which is why I’ve ruined things, including myself…to continue inside this… algorithm that has limitations.” ~Irene
• [Read Full Monologue]

Even The Color Blue

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Johan
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Johan is faced with the need to come out to his parents, but the problem is that his father is ill, which causes a terrible conflict with his mother.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just want to be accepted for who I truly am, not for who everyone thinks I am.” ~Johan
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Mr. Bad Mood

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Bill
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Bill knows that he is a dying man and he explains to his son why he chooses to remain at the lighthouse.
• Monologue Snippet: “The sound of the waves crashing against them rocks…the sand, the gulls, the fire…a good book will do me, accompanied with scotch and I’m home at last…home, at last.” ~Bill
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Middle of Nowhere

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Vance
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Vance reveals his ultimate dream for the life he imagines with his girlfriend Selena.
• Monologue Snippet: “There is so much we can achieve, together out here…it’s insane, if you just give it a chance.” ~Vance
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The Last Time

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Wendy
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Wendy is asked for money from the father she never sees because he is involved in a life or death situation.  This dark moment reveals a painful past between this father and daughter that may or may not shift when Wendy’s boyfriend Roger gets involved.
• Monologue Snippet: “Being divorced from mom and trying to grow your business, but I can’t help but wonder how much you ever truly loved me to just leave like you did. (beat) I was never a focal point in your life, was I?” ~Wendy
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The Data Evaluation

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mr. Higgs
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Mr. Higgs explains to Mr. Reynolds why he is being let go from the company.
• Monologue Snippet: “You were hired for your promise, which outdid your contemporaries but you have remained average, deliberately.” ~Mr. Higgs
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Seasons Change

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Milda
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Milda is trying to come to terms with reestablishing her own private interests while also being devoted to raising her children.
• Monologue Snippet: “It sounds like such a cliché but I was running around Eric’s room, picking up his toys and clothes and caught a glance of myself in the door mirror and I screamed.” ~Milda
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Of Distance Run

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Clark
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Clark and Pedro bury their father, but only one of them receive an inheritance.
• Monologue Snippet: “Didn’t he want me to do something? Have some part of him with me…at least give over the truck. He could have—we would have—” ~Clark
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One Foot in the Grave

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Fratz
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Fratz talks to his neighbor Harriet about how he feels worthless and can’t seem to make a life for himself.
• Monologue Snippet: “I don’t. I mean, what the hell else do I got to do with myself, right? Bored stiff; loafin’ ’round all day. Everybody I know is dead.” ~Fratz
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Lunch With The Enemy

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Tara
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Flora continues hearing sounds she describes as dragonflies coming from behind her kitchen wall.
• Monologue Snippet: “No one notices he’s there, until POOF, he bites you with his venomous fangs and claims your life…” ~Tara
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The Face of a Great Actress

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Amber
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Amber isn’t happy with all the attention her husband Cody gives to their daughter and fears it’s spoiling her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Because you spoil her rotten. She has more stuffed dolls than I’ve ever seen. We could open up a toy store at this point Cody. ” ~Amber
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The Way Home

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Jasmine
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jasmine tries to convince her parents that she is ready to move out and live on her own.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just, I need my freedom. I need time, time to think and be in my own thoughts with things, I want to be my own person, Mom.” ~Jasmine
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Another Bit of Light

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Lisa
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Lisa wishes she had children but due to financial problems with her husband her wish might not come true.
• Monologue Snippet: “Maybe I was extra emotional or sensitive, but whenever something serious took place in my home, I remembered every detail.” ~Lisa
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