←Recommendations of WE RIDE AT DAWN! (a monologue)

Bo knows football. Bo knows baseball. Scott Sickles knows character.

In "We Ride At Dawn," Sickles has created a brilliant portrait of a young person who probably can pronounce every dinosaur's name and the era they lived in, but now has moved on to obsessions with forestry, entomology, and (seemingly) Arthurian England. So rich is Mill's vocabulary and syntax, Mill's focus on revenge against a (perceived) slight is funny, charming, vaguely terrifying, and full of the most delicious ham.

Actors will love chewing the scenery and being bigger than any human has ever been in Sickles' brief monologue.

Children really are the most amazing wordsmiths, aren't they. Rules of grammar, syntax and phonetics, be damned, the way Mill speaks to us about his upcoming campaign to avenge a terrible wrong, is so... right in his intent and misusage. I would speak like that were I in his footie pajamas and that's the charm of Scott Sickles work. He puts us right there in the drivers seat by making his characters sound just like us. We all could have let it go if it weren't for the damned M & M's.

Heroic and bold.
Sickles plays with language and paints bold vibrant images.
He makes me want to try harder as a writer. Enough said.

This child has a vivid imagination and knows how to play on their own - good traits that make for a fun, successful monologue!

“Those M&Ms sealed your doom!”
My wife has a story about how she was sent to bed as a child. About an hour later she got up and saw her parents and older brothers were enjoying ice cream from David’s Cookies. That’s when she knew: people partied when she went to bed!

And so we have our heroine, a child who has been denied an anticipated show and snacks, because something as dreadful as 8:30PM has happened, and her parents have forced her to observe. This is a wonderful monologue! The invasive larvae were a nice touch.

I believe that children are sociopaths, and absolutely nothing in Scott Sickles' delightfully funny monologue convinces me otherwise. This is a fun and hilarious portrayal of a kid who seeks revenge on their parents who had the audacity to SET A BEDTIME! Bastards!
Read and produce this wonderful monologue and, if you have kids, sleep with one eye open.

A fabulous monologue for any child that allows for such imagination and play in this quest for revenge with the creatures of the pines as comrades. Wonderful!

Another hilarious precocious child monologue by Sickles, this one in a mock-heroic vein. The language alone is a delight, a brilliant child's POV evocation of epic speech. And within the sheer glorious fun of this piece is a tribute to the boundlessness of the human imagination, particularly at its most innocent stage when whole worlds are effortlessly invented, explored, and conquered without leaving the confines of one's bedroom. If only we could all dream as big as Mill does!

Sickles delivers one of best kid monologues ever!
Oh so adorable Mill in camo pjays charms us with his devilish revenge against (won't say).
The physicality (he's playing a military leader summoning an occult army) and vocal characterization (he's delivering a funny version of Medieval dialect) would be a fun challenge for a kid actor.
This is one of those monologues, if performed perfectly by the right actor, would be a winner at a competition.
Why do another one-dimensional, storytelling, undramatic kid monologue from one of those dusty monologue books? Perfom one of Sickles' kid monologues instead.