The early years of the twenty-first century have witnessed a proliferation of non-fiction, reality-based performance genres, including documentary and verbatim theatre, site-specific theatre, autobiog
The essays in this collection examine the phenomenon of the solo play or monodrama from a range of perspectives to create a kind of collective portrait of the actor alone on stage.
Two people relive the same moment in unexpected ways and in different genres (from diary to dramatic dialogue, from film script to sound installation). Despite their eloquence, they cannot say how the