In October 1984, at La Mama on East 4th Street, John Densmore performed solo in a duo-monologue evening. Faith Healer finally reached Broadway in a 2006 revival starring Ralph Fiennes, Ian McDiarmid (who won a Tony), and Cherry Jones.Ĥ. Faith Healer, Brian Friel’s full-length play of monologues delivered by three actors playing the shaman title character, his wife and his manager, opened at London’s Royal Court Theatre in March 1981 before premiering in New York at The Vineyard Theater in 1983. The evening’s second act was a new monologue play by David Scott Milton entitled Duet, this time starring Gazzara as Leonard Pelican, a paranoid Times Square hotel night clerk who thinks he is being pursued by the KGB.ģ. On February 11, 1975, Ben Gazzara opened as Erie Smith in Hughie at the John Golden Theatre. Eugene O’Neill’s one-act monologue play, Hughie, has often over the years been mounted on its own, most notably starring Jason Robards and Al Pacino, but it also invites monologue pairings. Kenneth Tynan, co-artistic director of the National with Laurence Olivier, premiered the piece at The Old Vic, with Lennon and Yoko Ono, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr in attendance on opening night.Ģ. Adapted by Adrienne Kennedy-the estimable African-American playwright avant gardist-in collaboration with the actor Victor Spinetti, In His Own Write was directed by Spinetti and performed by Ronald Pickup (recently seen as Neville Chamberlain in the film Darkest Hour).
On June 18, 1968, Britain’s not-yet-five-year-old National Theatre premiered In His Own Write, a one-act, monologue adaptation of Beatle John Lennon’s two published books of verse, drawings and stories In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works.
Here are some predecessors that stand out:ġ.
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