CRWR 218 - The Art of the Monologue: One-Person Plays and Other Solo (Non)Fictions

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
A writing workshop on the first-person voice, whether the text is intended for the page or the stage. From performed autobiography (or autobiographical fictions) to solo-performer journalistic inquiries to the inner narratives of Modern (and Postmodern) fiction to Moth-style storytelling, we will examine great monologues across multiple genres. Student work will be new, original responses to writing exercises, working toward a staged reading of an original one-act monologue. Possible readings may include Samuel Beckett, Whoopi Goldberg, Wallace Shawn, Anna Deveare Smith, Edgar Allen Poe, and EM Lewis, among others.