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Myth-o-logues

by Janice Harris

Cassandra (the Trojan prophetess no one believes) is here to be your Greek mythology tour guide. She’ll lead you through stories of war, relationships and the origins of good and evil. She’ll share all before old Charon ferries the whole audience across the River Styx. Will you listen? Will you learn? Will you believe?

A fantastic one act and classroom resource. Pick and choose from this must-have collection of monologues from Greek Mythology’s greatest characters.

Average Producer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 40 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
31 Characters
14 M 17 F
Set
Simple Set
Length
42 pages
Free Excerpt

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Royalty fees apply to all performances whether or not admission is charged. Any performance in front of an audience (e.g. an invited dress rehearsal) is considered a performance for royalty purposes.

Exemption details for scenes and monologues for competition.

31 Characters

  • 14 Males
  • 17 Females

Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character and modify pronouns accordingly.

Female

  • Cassandra Female
    Our hostess. Five monologues.
  • Andromache Female
    Wants her husband, Hector, to be careful. One Monologue.
  • Antigone Female
    Wants her poor, dead brother to finally rest. One Monologue.
  • Arachne Female
    Lost a very important contest to Athena. One Monologue.
  • Arete Female
    Virtue herself. Don’t listen to the others! One Monologue.
  • Daphne Female
    Why won’t Apollo leave her alone? One Monologue.
  • Demeter Female
    Beware a mother’s fury. One Monologue.
  • Electra Female
    Will avenge her father’s death. One Monologue.
  • Euridice Female
    Lover of Prpheus. A few steps away from a one-way-ticket out of the Underworld. One Monologue.
  • Helen Female
    Regrets ever taking that lover. One Monologue.
  • Ismene Female
    Thinks Antigone isn’t being reasonable. One Monologue.
  • Kakia Female
    Her friends call her happiness. One Monologue.
  • Pandora Female
    If only she had known, she wouldn’t have opened that jar. One Monologue.
  • Penelope Female
    hasn’t seen her husband in quite awhile. One Monologue.
  • Persephone Female
    Took a vacation to someplace really hot. One Monologue.
  • Psyche Female
    She’s lonely. There, she said it. One Monologue.
  • The Siren Female
    Come and listen to her song. One Monologue.

Male

  • Achilles Male
    Will avenge his friend, or die trying. One Monologue.
  • Aeneas Male
    Call him a coward all you like. One Monologue.
  • Achaemenides Male
    hasn’t been himself lately. One Monologue.
  • Bellerophon Male
    In for the ride of his life. One Monologue.
  • Centaur Male
    Half-man, half-horse. Does nothing by halves. One Monologue.
  • Charon Male
    A ferryman on a very peculiar river. One Monologue.
  • Diomedes Male
    Had a clever ploy to win the war, once and for all. One Monologue.
  • Epimetheus Male
    Prometheus warned him. Why didn’t he listen? One Monologue.
  • Eros Male
    Love, himself. One Monologue.
  • Hector Male
    Must do his duty. One Monologue.
  • Orestes Male
    Electra’s brother. Ready for revenge. One Monologue.
  • Orpheus Male
    greatest musician, on the greatest road trip. One Monologue.
  • Paris Male
    Not much for one-on-one combat. One Monologue.
  • Pygmalion Male
    His girlfriend looks like a Greek statue. One Monologue.

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