Hirst had a dramatic solo exhibition at the ICA in 1993, and the buzz around these artists persuaded Norman Rosenthal to put on a show at the stuffy old Royal Academy, consisting entirely of their work, called Sensation.
A Royal Air Force-trained pilot, he crashed into the national consciousness and the quagmire of the Middle East conflict with a dramatic solo flight from Israel to Egypt in an old rented biplane in 1966.
Latin versions of the Greek theatre with music were supplemented by a Roman variant of the pantomime as a dramatic solo dance with chorus and orchestra.
Then, in September, at the London Proms, she sang the title role in Britten's dramatic solo cantata "Phaedra," and Jocasta in Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex".
Similar devices writ large come into play in "Atthis," a dramatic 2009 solo scene for soprano with five strings, clarinet, bassoon and French horn — intentionally, the band of Schubert's Octet.
Composed in 1947 and revised in 1959, this chromatic but accessible score wraps a challenging and varied solo line in a dramatic orchestral fabric, with neither wasted movement nor empty gestures.
Actor, storyteller, character psychologist and social satirist, Ruth Draper was a monologuist who helped refine the dramatic solo form.
Tom Hanks was chosen best actor in a dramatic motion picture for his near-solo turn in Robert Zemeckis's "Cast Away," as a man marooned on a tropical island, and Julia Roberts was named best actress in a drama for "Erin Brockovich," playing a legal secretary who takes on a utility.
So is the rumble of a dramatic drum solo and the blare from a band belting the lyrics of "Come in From the Outside Just as You Are".
This will result in a dramatic reduction.
