(Each of the play's sets of twins is played by a single actor, despite what the not terribly amusing program would have you believe).
On paper (and paper turned out to be a large element of the show), it could have hardly seemed less theatrical: a recitation, by a single actor, of every single word, 50,000 or so of them, in the book.
Such was the play's sensitivity that James Nicola, Artistic Director at N.Y.T.W., decided that it would be staged twice each night: once with a cast of eight, after which came a moderated audience discussion, followed by a read-through of the script by a single actor.
In Something for Cate, some monologues are read by a single actor – at the Rough Drafts public performance, the cis actor Kym Vercoe – but often McGregor's words are distributed among other cast members, so McGregor seems to be a disembodied spirit in the room.
Breaking the unwritten rule that theatre for the over-sevens has to send young audiences out on an upbeat note, Noël Greig's final play is an engaging and often dark piece of storytelling delivered by a single actor, two musicians and an army of traditional and makeshift instruments.
Moments of historic greatness are rarely realized by a single actor.
A single actor might intone the lines of a string of unnamed people in quick succession, then stand silently by while another actor launches into a macabre soliloquy.
The new constitution will introduce a single foreign minister to give the union a single actor on the international stage.
A single actor was constructed that converts YCrCb to RGB color space.
Moreover, they gave Best Actor to Michael Keaton, throwing weight behind a single actor in the very tight, superb Spotlight ensemble.
