The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2017, Smith and Kraus, Coming 12/2017

Auditions? Anyone? Brooklyn Publishing, 2017

Running Time: 10 minutes
Cast: 1 either
Flexibility: gender flexible

Cameron, the dramatic director of the Blue Valley Thespian Club, is intent on making this year’s artistic offering exceptional, endearing, and extraordinary. As the production’s fearless leader, she wants to move the audience to tears, laughter, and hopefully, donations. She has penned a science fiction fairy tale extravaganza entitled “Snow White and the Seven Intergalactic Deathbots”. At the auditions, Cameron acts out all the roles including the Evil Queen, the Charming Prince, science-whiz Snow White, and a host of android assassins. Cameron casts herself in every role, certain that she is the only performer with the “artistic aptitude” to play each character. Will this limelight hog learn that it takes a team to make a theatre production?

Best 5-Minute Plays for Teens, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books,                                           a Division of Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing, 2017

An Atmosphere to Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Convertor, Heuer Publishing, 2016

Running Time: 10 minutes
Cast: 2-3 either
Flexibility: gender flexible

 

Geeks Jamie and Dominque are competing to win the school’s science fair. Dominque accuses Jamie of being a creative-less caveman; Jamie accuses Dominque of being a hi-tech heretic. Yet, the dissimilar duo manage to form a friendship and even a potential working relationship when Viola Whittaker wins the science fair with her classic baking soda and vinegar volcano.

 

Is This Seat Taken?, Big Dog Plays, 2016

Collections
Cast: 1 F, 9 flexible (Doubling possible.)
Performance Time: Approximately 30 mins, 46 pgs.

MONOLOGUE COLLECTION. All seats will be taken for this side-splitting monologue collection featuring a marvelous myriad of socially awkward characters and situations. There’s the new kid who has a tendency to talk too much, a teen who thinks her messy bedroom is actually an efficient organizational system, a bookish student who wants the theme for the spring dance to be “Dancing Under the Amoebas,” an insecure girl who can’t figure out what to wear to a sleepover, and an art student who turns in a blank piece of paper as her self-portrait. Wildly funny and easy to perform, all ten monologues can be performed on a bare stage with minimal props.

Delight in a Fright Night, Big Dog Plays, 2013

Collections
Cast: 4 M, 12 F, 5 flexible (With doubling: 2 M, 8 F, 2 flexible)
Performance Time: Approximately 45 minutes, 41 pgs.

COMEDY COLLECTION. This collection of easy-to-stage short plays is perfect for Halloween and for audiences of all ages. In “To Bite or Not to Bite,” two old-school vampires from Transylvania realize they can’t compete with younger, hipper vampires when it comes to luring hapless victims. In “Franken Date,” a science geek creates her perfect prom date. In “The Phantom of the Gymnasium,” a ghost earns a spot on the cheerleading squad. In “Night of the Living Lunch Ladies,” a student suspects the lunch ladies may be zombies. And in “My Cat Ate My Homework,” a teenage witch has to deal with a cat that won’t stop eating her chemistry homework.

The Talent Show: A Ten Minute Comedic Monologue, Heuer Publishing & Brooklyn Publishers, 2010

 Ten Minute Monologue

Running Time: 10 minutes
Cast: 1 either, 1 total cast
Flexibility: gender flexible

Gail Keebler is the newly appointed arts and entertainment reporter for her high school newspaper. An aspiring journalist, she is disgruntled by the everyday and mundane nature of her assignments. She describes and reenacts the contestants of her school’s upcoming talent show. First, there are the math nerds whose talents include converting numbers to scientific notations. Next, there is the cheerleader who created a cheer to the Beatles classic “Let it Be.” Finally, there is the goth queen and the school’s most dramatic thespian reenacting every death scene in Shakespeare. While Gail’s opinion of her classmates’ talents is scathing, she realizes how amazing it is to have such a diverse group of students all pulling together for a single purpose.