The work, essentially a monologue with pulsating electronic music under it, was a collection of personal stories, observational humor and commentary.
Eboni Booth as Lynette does yeoman's work with a monologue about teenage sex, and Mr. Boyer infuses Albert with such ambiguous vulnerability that you can't ever quite decide whether to root for or against him.
At the time, Forsythe was creating the ballet Eidos: Telos, and the finished work contains a monologue delivered by Caspersen in which she channels the spirit of Persephone, stolen from her lover Orpheus by Hades, and taken to the underworld.
Ms. Kirschner's work is a monologue delivered by Ruth Green, a middle-aged woman sitting at a hotel room desk (and pacing around it), looking for just the right locution and tone to thank Dr. David Stein for his kindness to her father, who is dying in a New York hospital.
AS the memoir proceeds, Nordan's usually deft language sometimes grows slack and rambling, like a patient working through a monologue from the couch.
I also remember one moment, later in rehearsals, where a student actor was helping the Builders develop the script around Facebook and was working on a monologue while her own Facebook page was displayed on the screen.
The work, a massive soprano monologue, forms part of a double bill with Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle.
"These artists have become historical figures in our collection," Mera says, "but to show their work alone would be a monologue.
Watch what this company manages to make of Hamlet's delivery of the "What a piece of work is a man" monologue to Rosencrantz (Naseeruddin Shah) and Guildenstern (Rohan Siva), by having the actors stripped down to bare, Leonardo-esque torsos.
Music major Hannah Pho, '18, wrote /ə'w■k/, or A Work/A Walk/Awake, a monologue performed by a narrator and string quartet.
