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The play consists primarily of a monologue delivered by the aging drag queen Leslie Bright, reflecting on the passions of his life. These include his attempts at self-invention, modeled on such figures as Miss America, Judy Garland, and Venus, and the encounters and loves that have shaped him. [8]
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 .
The published play includes two other short plays by Wilson, Reflections and The Biscuit. Reflections is a collection of short monologues while The Biscuit , in common with People in Cages , features a character locked in a cage where he is tormented and finally killed by his captors.
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.
It was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994, with a collection of six plays; however, the updated collection contains fourteen. The short plays are almost all comedies (or comedy dramas ), focusing mainly on language and wordplay , existentialist perspectives on life and meaning, as well as the complications involved in romantic ...
Not I takes place in a pitch-black space illuminated only by a single beam of light. This spotlight fixes on an actress's mouth about eight feet above the stage, [1] everything else being blacked out and, in early performances, illuminates the shadowy figure of the Auditor who makes four increasingly ineffectual movements "of helpless compassion" during brief breaks in the monologue where ...
The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953), by Ray Bradbury; Fools (1981), by Neil Simon; Fortitude (1968), by Kurt Vonnegut; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1982), by Terrence McNally; The Frog Prince (1982), by David Mamet; The Front Page (1928), by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; Fugitive Kind (1937), by Tennessee Williams
Talking With... is a 1982 play by Jane Martin, published by Samuel French Incorporated. [1] The play is composed of eleven ten-minute monologues, each featuring a different woman who talks about her life. [2]