10 Special Speeches for the Spectacularly Smart<\/h3>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/large-amanda-grace.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span>Written by Amanda Grace<\/p>\n
August 30th, 2020<\/p>\n<\/font>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>With age comes the wisdom to identify wisdom in all its forms. Some of these characters are braniacs, some are magicians, and all of them will challenge you to be your very cleverest self. <\/span><\/p>\nA monologue from\u00a0For My Silent Sisters\u00a0<\/em>by Tara Meddaugh<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/adrian-dascal-Wp9yZErodaE-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Female, Dramatic, High School 14-18)<\/b><\/p>\n
Marta, a Romanian teenager, has been falsely lured away from her family to a \u201ctraining\u00a0<\/span>facility\u201d which grooms girls to work as prostitutes in Europe. Marta\u2019s best friend at the\u00a0<\/span>facility, Tasaria, has been burned at the stake because she was caught trying to escape.\u00a0<\/span>Here, Marta lays out her own escape plan.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0Three Sisters on Hope Street<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>by Diane Samuels and Tracy-Ann Oberman<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-blonk-gICX2XvfpI0-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Male, Serio-Comic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n
Arnold Lasky is a gifted scholar, linguist, artist and musician, but after marrying his\u00a0<\/span>overbearing wife and having a child, he gives up on his PhD and develops a gambling\u00a0<\/span>habit. Eventually, he is forced to sell his house to his father-in-law; as he is pressured to\u00a0<\/span>make over the deeds, Arnold imagines talking to his dead father, wondering what he\u00a0<\/span>would have made of it all.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0The Nose That Ran Away from Its Face\u00a0<\/em>by Joseph Robinette<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kiana-bosman-8j5FpnLmQk-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Any Gender, Comedic, High School 14-18, Kids & Juniors 5-13)<\/b><\/p>\n
A giant sneeze separates a young boy and his pun-loving proboscis; having just escaped\u00a0<\/span>the boy\u2019s face, the Nose is finally \u2018running\u2019 free on his own. This sassy schnozzle\u2019s puns\u00a0<\/span>and wit know no bounds.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A monologue from Bell Shaped Body\u00a0<\/em>by Gabriel Davis<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/joseph-perez-cEsgAhPee_A-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Female, Comedic, Mature 50s, Adults 30-40s, Young Adults 20s, College 18-22)<\/b><\/p>\n
In this standalone piece, a woman explains her interacting passions for brownies and\u00a0<\/span>statistics.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0The Tempest\u00a0<\/em>by William Shakespeare<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/danny-g-j1sUTjw-M18-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Male, Dramatic, Mature 50s, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n
Fighting to exert nobler reason over the fury of revenge against his usurping brother\u00a0<\/span>Alonso, Prospero decides to surrender his magical powers and seek restitution in\u00a0<\/span>forgiveness. This is his last piece of conjuring before burying his magical staff and\u00a0<\/span>Spellbook; it is an immense act of will.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Smart\u00a0<\/em>by Douglas M. Parker<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/iiona-virgin-w6PBpHpWxsk-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Any Gender, Comedic, High School 14-18, Kids & Juniors 5-13)<\/b><\/p>\n
After beginning studies in biology and chemistry, a kid aspires to invent a pill that will\u00a0<\/span>make you super-smart\u2026 but in order to pass the classes, they may need to take the pill\u00a0<\/span>First.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0Futurama<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>by Samantha Charlip<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/benjamin-ranger-DpdTfB8lQTc-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Male, Serio-Comic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n
Otis is an employee of the hokey theme park Futurama, where he works with April, for\u00a0<\/span>whom he has feelings. When he is brave enough to ask her if she\u2019d like to hear a speech\u00a0<\/span>on a Many-Worlds Theory he\u2019s prepared for a presentation at the Secret Science Club,\u00a0<\/span>she agrees to give it a listen.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Sticks and Stones\u00a0<\/em>by Janet Milstein<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/adam-winger-6Yj_VFHjW6M-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Female, Comedic, Kids & Juniors 5-13)<\/b><\/p>\n
Lisa\u2019s brother is always teasing her and calling her dumb. Well, today, Lisa finally\u00a0<\/span>outsmarted her brother\u2014and she\u2019s eager to impress a friend with the details of how she\u00a0<\/span>did it.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A monologue from The Bridge\u00a0<\/em>by Bruce Solheim<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/science-in-hd-_Ym6wla_GMQ-unsplash.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Male, Dramatic, Mature 50s)<\/b><\/p>\n
Harry, a physics teacher, speaks freely to Simone about quantum physics, explaining\u00a0<\/span>reality, as we see it, as best he can. His wife is on life support and Harry knows it\u2019s his\u00a0<\/span>job to move his wife to the next \u201cplane of existence\u201d\u2026 so he\u2019s come to The Golden Gate\u00a0<\/span>Bridge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0The Learned Ladies\u00a0<\/em>by Timothy Mooney<\/h4>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blog_moliere-monologues-for-men.jpg\")
<\/span><\/div>(Male, Serio-Comic, Adults 30-40s, Young Adults 20s)<\/b><\/p>\n
From a collection of over 160 of Moliere\u2019s funniest monologues in new, rhymed iambic\u00a0<\/span>pentameter comes this speech from Clitandre, who cannot bring himself to suffer fools\u00a0<\/span>gladly. He loves Henriette, and would do anything for her, but as she tries to get him to\u00a0<\/span>play along with her mother and her mother\u2019s clique of scholars, he resists.<\/span><\/p>\nGet the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nAmanda Grace\u00a0is an\u00a0actor, writer, composer, improvisor and director whose work has graced stages from\u00a0 Central Florida to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.\u00a0She is based in London, where she is studying to\u00a0obtain her M.F.A. in Actor & Performer Training at Rose Bruford College. Amanda holds an honours B.A. in Theatre Studies and a B.A. in Psychology, as well as a certificate in Shakespearean Performance from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.\u00a0Her original albums can\u00a0be streamed at\u00a0amandagrace.bandcamp.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\nPhoto credit:
\nPhoto by Science in HD<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Adam Winger<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Benjamin Ranger<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by IIONA VIRGIN<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by DANNY G<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Joseph P\u00e9rez<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Kiana Bosman<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Chris Blonk<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Adrian Dascal<\/a> on Unsplash<\/h5>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[801,757,301],"tags":[6,238,239,965,962,344,456,138,963,964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
With age comes the wisdom to identify wisdom in all its forms. Some of these characters are braniacs, some are magicians, and all of them will challenge you to be your very cleverest self. <\/span><\/p>\n (Female, Dramatic, High School 14-18)<\/b><\/p>\n Marta, a Romanian teenager, has been falsely lured away from her family to a \u201ctraining\u00a0<\/span>facility\u201d which grooms girls to work as prostitutes in Europe. Marta\u2019s best friend at the\u00a0<\/span>facility, Tasaria, has been burned at the stake because she was caught trying to escape.\u00a0<\/span>Here, Marta lays out her own escape plan.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Male, Serio-Comic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n Arnold Lasky is a gifted scholar, linguist, artist and musician, but after marrying his\u00a0<\/span>overbearing wife and having a child, he gives up on his PhD and develops a gambling\u00a0<\/span>habit. Eventually, he is forced to sell his house to his father-in-law; as he is pressured to\u00a0<\/span>make over the deeds, Arnold imagines talking to his dead father, wondering what he\u00a0<\/span>would have made of it all.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Any Gender, Comedic, High School 14-18, Kids & Juniors 5-13)<\/b><\/p>\n A giant sneeze separates a young boy and his pun-loving proboscis; having just escaped\u00a0<\/span>the boy\u2019s face, the Nose is finally \u2018running\u2019 free on his own. This sassy schnozzle\u2019s puns\u00a0<\/span>and wit know no bounds.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Female, Comedic, Mature 50s, Adults 30-40s, Young Adults 20s, College 18-22)<\/b><\/p>\n In this standalone piece, a woman explains her interacting passions for brownies and\u00a0<\/span>statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Male, Dramatic, Mature 50s, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n Fighting to exert nobler reason over the fury of revenge against his usurping brother\u00a0<\/span>Alonso, Prospero decides to surrender his magical powers and seek restitution in\u00a0<\/span>forgiveness. This is his last piece of conjuring before burying his magical staff and\u00a0<\/span>Spellbook; it is an immense act of will.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Any Gender, Comedic, High School 14-18, Kids & Juniors 5-13)<\/b><\/p>\n After beginning studies in biology and chemistry, a kid aspires to invent a pill that will\u00a0<\/span>make you super-smart\u2026 but in order to pass the classes, they may need to take the pill\u00a0<\/span>First.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Male, Serio-Comic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n Otis is an employee of the hokey theme park Futurama, where he works with April, for\u00a0<\/span>whom he has feelings. When he is brave enough to ask her if she\u2019d like to hear a speech\u00a0<\/span>on a Many-Worlds Theory he\u2019s prepared for a presentation at the Secret Science Club,\u00a0<\/span>she agrees to give it a listen.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Female, Comedic, Kids & Juniors 5-13)<\/b><\/p>\n Lisa\u2019s brother is always teasing her and calling her dumb. Well, today, Lisa finally\u00a0<\/span>outsmarted her brother\u2014and she\u2019s eager to impress a friend with the details of how she\u00a0<\/span>did it.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Male, Dramatic, Mature 50s)<\/b><\/p>\n Harry, a physics teacher, speaks freely to Simone about quantum physics, explaining\u00a0<\/span>reality, as we see it, as best he can. His wife is on life support and Harry knows it\u2019s his\u00a0<\/span>job to move his wife to the next \u201cplane of existence\u201d\u2026 so he\u2019s come to The Golden Gate\u00a0<\/span>Bridge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\n (Male, Serio-Comic, Adults 30-40s, Young Adults 20s)<\/b><\/p>\n From a collection of over 160 of Moliere\u2019s funniest monologues in new, rhymed iambic\u00a0<\/span>pentameter comes this speech from Clitandre, who cannot bring himself to suffer fools\u00a0<\/span>gladly. He loves Henriette, and would do anything for her, but as she tries to get him to\u00a0<\/span>play along with her mother and her mother\u2019s clique of scholars, he resists.<\/span><\/p>\n Get the Monologue Here<\/a><\/p>\nA monologue from\u00a0For My Silent Sisters\u00a0<\/em>by Tara Meddaugh<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0Three Sisters on Hope Street<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>by Diane Samuels and Tracy-Ann Oberman<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0The Nose That Ran Away from Its Face\u00a0<\/em>by Joseph Robinette<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>A monologue from Bell Shaped Body\u00a0<\/em>by Gabriel Davis<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0The Tempest\u00a0<\/em>by William Shakespeare<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>Smart\u00a0<\/em>by Douglas M. Parker<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0Futurama<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>by Samantha Charlip<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>Sticks and Stones\u00a0<\/em>by Janet Milstein<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>A monologue from The Bridge\u00a0<\/em>by Bruce Solheim<\/h4>\n
<\/span><\/div>A monologue from\u00a0The Learned Ladies\u00a0<\/em>by Timothy Mooney<\/h4>\n
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\nAmanda Grace\u00a0is an\u00a0actor, writer, composer, improvisor and director whose work has graced stages from\u00a0 Central Florida to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.\u00a0She is based in London, where she is studying to\u00a0obtain her M.F.A. in Actor & Performer Training at Rose Bruford College. Amanda holds an honours B.A. in Theatre Studies and a B.A. in Psychology, as well as a certificate in Shakespearean Performance from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.\u00a0Her original albums can\u00a0be streamed at\u00a0amandagrace.bandcamp.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Photo credit:
\nPhoto by Science in HD<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Adam Winger<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Benjamin Ranger<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by IIONA VIRGIN<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by DANNY G<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Joseph P\u00e9rez<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Kiana Bosman<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Chris Blonk<\/a> on Unsplash
\nPhoto by Adrian Dascal<\/a> on Unsplash<\/h5>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[801,757,301],"tags":[6,238,239,965,962,344,456,138,963,964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}