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This category comprises articles pertaining to monologues, speeches made by one person speaking their thoughts aloud or directly addressing a reader, audience or character Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
A solo performance, sometimes referred to as a one-man show, one-woman show, or one-person show, features a single person telling a story for an audience, typically for the purpose of entertainment. This type of performance comes in many varieties, including autobiographical creations, comedy acts, novel adaptations, vaudeville, poetry, music ...
Actor Christopher Walken performing a monologue in the 1984 stage play Hurlyburly. In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.
[4] Soon after its publication, Ephron gave the book to eight of her friends for Christmas. She became interested in writing her own version of the book. [4] Once she decided to adapt Love, Loss, and What I Wore into a play, she and her sister emailed 100 women for stories. [4] The show's monologues were sourced largely from Beckerman's book. [5]
Driver -- who has established a track record for very free-form, charismatically laid-back SNL monologues -- explained, "Every year, I make my Christmas list and I tell it to him. It's kind of our ...
The monologue has been read out at public British Christmas celebrations and festivals. [5] In 2012, The Independent newspaper named it as one of the best books for Christmas. [ 6 ] They also considered that it was a way of dropping hints about the consequences of poorly idealised Christmas presents.
‘Will go down as one of the best scenes of the year,’ says one fan Women can’t get enough of America Ferrera’s powerful Barbie monologue: ‘Made me cry’ Skip to main content
Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: The single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment