Free Monologue

I Don't Want to Talk About It is now available from Playscripts, Inc. (Click here to order a copy!) This play includes over a dozen monologues, ranging from comedy to drama, which makes it great for competitions, auditions, and classroom study.

To celebrate the play's release, here's one of many monologues from the play. Enjoy!

CAMERON: My hair started falling out when I was fifteen. At first it was just a few strands on my comb. Then a few more in the sink. Then a clump on my pillow. Now there’s a huge bald spot on the top of my head. And when I say huge, I mean huge. You could land a helicopter up there. It’s not like I didn’t expect it to happen. My dad is bald. My uncles are bald. My grandma is bald. But I kind of expected it to happen later. Like, way later. I’m the only kid in the yearbook who looks like an insurance salesman. So I started wearing hats. Skater hats, baseball caps, berets, fedoras. If you ever see a guy wearing a hat, trust me, he’s bald. The only problem is they don’t allow hats in school. What kind of stupid rule is that? I have a theory that if all teenagers wore hats, our brains would retain a lot more information. Unfortunately the principal didn't buy that, so I had no choice but to grow my hair long in the back and brush it forward. That worked okay for a while, until my chemistry teacher pointed at me in middle of class one day and said, “I’ll have to try that.” I shaved my head once, but that was even worse. All anyone wanted to do was rub my scalp and call me Mr. Clean. So I guess that means I just have to live with it, which would be a lot easier if I didn’t have to walk up and down the halls at school. Sometimes it feels like I’m running the gauntlet. My goal is to get from one classroom to another before anyone makes fun of me. They say to keep your head down when running through a gauntlet, but I hardly think that applies when your head is what everyone is talking about.

Stay tuned for more free scenes and monologues from all my plays!