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Wilson's manuscripts included monologues, sketches, drills and plays. In the 1894 season, she leased her various manuscripts to readers, actors, societies, and companies. [ 5 ] For several years, Wilson successfully superintended in person the leasing of her manuscripts, her leasing plan fitting a special demand for those seeking something new.
Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment. From an early age he was fascinated by the theatre, and as a child he wrote plays and organised his schoolfellows into a drama group. In his teens he wrote comic monologues and moved on to writing longer plays.
A Flea in Her Ear (French: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque.The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's plays, it is usually described as a farce.
Parry studied playwriting at the University of Birmingham and read English Language and Literature at Exeter College, Oxford. [4] In 2011, she co-founded Agent 160 Theatre Company [5] and co-produced two of its shows: a run of short plays by female playwrights in Cardiff, London and Glasgow, and also a series of female monologues at Wales Millennium Centre.
Nikki Glaser made history at the 2025 Golden Globes and took full advantage of her moment by poking fun at multiple celebrities in her monologue.
The Open Couple (Italian title: Coppia aperta, quasi spalancata) [1] is a play by Dario Fo. As with some of Fo's other plays, it is a romantic play which was written by his wife Franca Rame in 1983. [2] The Italian censors restricted it to audiences over the age of 18 when Rame included as a prologue her monologue The Rape (inspired by her own ...
Musical-theater standouts are called "triple-threats," for being able to sing, dance and act. Aaronson stood at the podium and, knowing his audience, proudly declared himself a single threat.
"A Lady of Letters" 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]