"The Thing About Mermaids" by Tara Meddaugh: New children's comedic 1-minute monologue
Okay, so if you had to choose one mystical creature to be real, which would you choose? In my new monologue, The Thing About Mermaids, Riley encounters a real live mermaid…but is Riley excited by this discovery or does Riley think it’s a waste of a mystical creature?
Enjoy this free 45 second - 1 minute long comedic monologue for children, gender neutral casting. (For a dramatic 10-minute monologue play about mermaids, click here for Marsopa’s Tale).
Special thanks to Julian (and his mom), for inspiring this monologue!
(And if you like theater about mermaids, you can check out my 10-minute dramatic monologue play, Marsopa’s Tale.)
Check out the excerpt below from, THE THING ABOUT MERMAIDS:
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RILEY
I know leprechauns aren’t real. I learned that when I was four and saw my mom hiding gold coins around the house in the middle of the night. And I know unicorns aren’t real either, because they’ve been extinct since the dinosaurs. But mermaids? (pause) I saw one in the lake yesterday. It was on a rock. It looked at me and didn’t even wave! And then it—END OF EXCERPT
CLICK HERE for the free digital copy of The Thing About Mermaids by Tara Meddaugh.
This monologue is free to download, but if you would like to support the playwright and her craft, you may do so below: