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Such monologues have been argued to play a key role in providing a practice space for developing complex connected discourse, [1] aiding a child to use language as a tool to categorize, explain and know the world, [6] and to "clarify what may originally have been problematic or troublesome".
Mikaela Friscoe, of Valhalla High School, performs a monologue from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the inaugural Eastern Student Artist Guild award ceremony at Manhattanville University on May 4 ...
Stand-up comedy originated in various traditions of popular entertainment in the late 19th century. These include 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, such as those delivered by Mark Twain in his 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.
Sandra Oh, Elizabeth Banks and Eva Longoria are just a few of the names who have signed on for Constance Zimmer and Abby Epstein’s “The Midlife Monologues,” a docu-theater piece inspired by ...
Throughout the monologue, she discusses past issues and events in her life, as well as recalling characters and situations. The juxtaposition of humour and sadness is used frequently by Bennett, as it is in many of the Talking Heads monologues to great effect. Such effects include the interaction of passing time.
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Board of Education of Weedsport Central School District, holding the school was within its rights in suspending for a semester a middle school student who used as an online avatar an image suggesting he intended to shoot and kill one of his teachers, due to the threat of violence involved and the likelihood that threat would eventually reach ...