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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.
Eight is the first play written by Ella Hickson. [1] Hickson created eight monologues ready to premier at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival in August 2008. [2] These monologues (15 minutes each) were written with the goal of portraying a state-of-the-nation group portrait.
"Soldiering On" is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television, as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. The series became very popular, moving onto BBC Radio, international theatre, becoming one of the best-selling audio book releases of all time and included as part of both the A-level and GCSE English syllabus. [1]
Talking Heads is a 1988 TV series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by British playwright Alan Bennett.The first series was broadcast on BBC1 in 1988, and adapted for radio on BBC Radio 4 in 1991.
Lord Byron (1788–1824) published two volumes of poetry in his teens, Fugitive Pieces and Hours of Idleness. Taylor Caldwell's The Romance of Atlantis was written when she was 12. Félix Francisco Casanova (1956–1976), Le Don de Vorace, was published in 1974.
Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues like those delivered by Mark Twain in his first (1866 ...
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.
The Vagina Monologues also served as inspiration for Yoni Ki Baat, the "South Asian adaptation of The Vagina Monologues", [34] and as loose inspiration for The Manic Monologues, "the mental-illness version of The Vagina Monologues." [35] The Cardinal Newman Society has criticized the performance of the play on Catholic college campuses. [36]