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The monologue is near the conclusion of Blade Runner, in which detective Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) has been ordered to track down and kill Roy Batty, a rogue artificial "replicant". During a rooftop chase in heavy rain, Deckard misses a jump and hangs on to the edge of a building by his fingers, about to fall to his death.
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.
Despite their efforts—Ouisa's more than Flan's—his fate is unresolved, except for a possibly tragic end. Towards the end of the play, in a climactic moment of reflection, she delivers the play's most famous monologue: I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation.
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
The Manic Monologues premiered during Mental Health Awareness Month in 2019 at Stanford University. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 17 ] [ 19 ] [ 27 ] The play has shown in Des Moines, Iowa , [ 6 ] [ 11 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] where David Felton of BroadwayWorld dubbed it "A production I won't soon forget," [ 11 ] and at the University of California, Los Angeles .
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
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc.Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play reflects Shaw's belief that the people involved in Joan's trial acted according to what they thought was right.
Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959.The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow.