I have just finished writing a new monologue titled " What's in a Name ". This one is shorter than my other recent monologues. It would likely run little more than 30 or possibly 40 minutes. After my last production, I have been feeling that 80 or 90 minute monologues are getting to be a bit much for me to both produce and to perform. The play is about an older man who takes a bus trip to the east coast after his husband of 41 years has died. I am sure this one, like my others, will be amended over time as I start to learn it. That seems to be my process. The first reader of the script called it a whimsical piece. I was pleased with that description. One problem with shorter monologues, however, is that they cannot make an evening's entertainment, at least one that will justify a worthwhile ticket price. When I performed a 45 minute monologue in 2016 at the Astor Theatre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, part of the evening was taken up with a musical performance by a loc
This blog is for the purpose of reporting on past and future shows I have or will be performing in. Since 2019, these plays are monologues that I have written. Theatre on a shoe-string budget requires all the help it can get from social media. I trained as an actor and performed professionally in the 1970s before becoming a lawyer in the 1980s. In the 1990s and early 2000s, I performed occasionally , taking up theatre (monologues) again after my retirement from the practice of law in 2015.