The Gentleman Caller’s monologue from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Monologues are tricky because maintaining a sense of dramatic conflict is much harder when only one person is talking. But sometimes the most interesting dramatic obstacle is a person’s own difficulty commu...
, scenes and storylines, before culminating in a deeper meaning at the conclusion of each video. The artist employs amateur and professional actors to address the unspoken rules of social interaction, whilst also getting inside the characters’ heads through the projection of internal monologue....
Gavin Friday, “It was Oscar Drove me Wilde.” In September 2003, Friday performed for the ESB Dublin Fringe festival, a monologue that revisited his childhood, his teenage heroes and anti-heroes, and his life’s experiences of Dublin. In the monologue entitledI Didn’t Come Up the Liffey ...
a meta-dialogue with the viewer that challenges their presumptions of identity and the“honest”disclosure of inner angst. While Wolfson is evidently not himself the loose-skinned, tired man of the poetic monologue in Female Figure 2014, the psycho-sexual inner world of the creator of the Bellm...
Much scepticism about lecturing supposes that a lecture is a monologue and that, often, the monologue will be boring. VirginiaWoolf (1942)comments: “Now the human voice is an instrument of varied power; it can enchant and it can soothe; it can rage and it can despair; but when it lect...
As the Young Vic state on their website, they commissioned fourteen theatre-makers from across England to write a short monologue on “what it means to be English today.” Seven of these shorts were filmed on location in the regions that the writers are from: Jack Thorne’s “Luton” (...
Zavyalov overthrows one of the firmest conventions of Russian literature: prose, like in the case of polyphonic novels of Dostoevsky, should speak with many voices, including the voice of its author (Bakhtin 1929, 1963, 1984), while poetry is in essence a spirited monologue of a lyrical pers...