- Spalding Grey
Monologues: delving deeply / darkly – exploring Grey’s Anatomy, Black Spot
-Performs anecdotally: One to one connection, may be mundane content, captures performativity of everyday life, self-indulgent self-disclosure,
-Anecdotes of personal life lead to wider society commentary
“What is worth noticing is the world”
-His work vents, but he still harbours that feeling
# Pace # Rhythm # Energy #Static
-Seated performance => greater vocal expression + Props: table, notebook => not a Show
“One must have one’s delusions to live” (Annie & Her Sisters)
- Summary: Gray’s anecdotal monologues simultaneously capture the performativity of everyday life, telling commonplace anecdotes and reported stories, whilst delving deeply and often darkly into his own troubled mind to explore his own thoughts alongside external experiences, ultimately leading to wider social commentary.
- Adrian Howells
Theatrical performer inviting the participation of members
#Trust
-Unabashed honesty, generous, courageous
– Theatre = shared act, not just consumed
-Physical contact with audience members
-Intimate, one-on-one performances
“How are you? Really means How are you.”
Footwashing for the Soul: All performances guided by willingness/giving of audience/participant
-Autobiographical -> Confessional because of mass-mediation of society
-Solo = Vision of the world
“Giving people the opportunity to alleviate guilt and shame
-Collective Global Catharsis
-Willingness to tell secrets to strangers
“An excuse for me to have a meaningful connection with other people”
- Summary: In his solo work, Adrian Howells predominantly creates intimate, one to one performances which involve physical and emotional connection, usually stimulated by revealing Howells’ own vulnerability, before questioning that of the individual audience member.
SG vs. AH
Intellectual Emotional
Connection Connection