The stage is bare except for a music stand, a grand piano and a Victorian armchair, soon to be occupied by the play's sole actor, Mr. Pine, as the tormented, obsessively confessional Pozdnyshev.
With its sole actor and circumscribed world, Fully Committed seems an odd choice for Broadway.
On the dramatic side "I Am My Own Wife," Doug Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about an East German transvestite, won for best play and for its sole actor, Jefferson Mays, who plays more than 40 characters.
Mr. Santhego-Hudson, the play's sole actor, will play some 30 characters, from low-life ne'er-do-wells to Nanny herself, though he will be assisted by Bill Sims Jr., a blues guitarist.
(Isherwood) Off Broadway 'BEYOND GLORY' Stephen Lang is the sole actor in his own adaptation of Larry Smith's book profiling servicemen who have received the Medal of Honor, the United States military's greatest laurel.
And as both director and sole actor, she plays not just characters in fictional films, but also what seem to be delusional characters, Hitchcockian nut-jobs, adrift in their own infantilizing narratives.
The title refers not just prosaically to the play's sole actor but also resonantly to its subject, which is not loneliness exactly but more specifically what it feels like to be left irrevocably alone.
"When it comes to success in acting, people often think of the sole actor, the 'Mr. DeMille I'm ready for my close-up' sense of me, me, me," he said.
(Isherwood) Last Chance 'BEYOND GLORY' Stephen Lang is the sole actor in his own adaptation of Larry Smith's book profiling servicemen who have received the Medal of Honor, the United States military's greatest laurel.
(Brantley) Off Broadway 'BEYOND GLORY' Stephen Lang is the sole actor in his own adaptation of Larry Smith's book profiling servicemen who have received the Medal of Honor, the United States military's greatest laurel.
Some scholars, however, diverge from Weber and, following the tradition set by Thomas Hobbes, instead argue that the ideal of the monopoly of violence concerns not only its control but also its use, such that the state is the sole actor that can legitimately wield violence except in case of immediate self-defense.
