Word: soliloquy
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...effective lighting reflects the scenes and the dialogue clearly. When Foley has a soliloquy describing how his family thinks they know him (but really don't), he steps forward and the back lighting dims and turns a reddish color, drawing attention to him alone and providing a sense of unreality. In another scene, during one of the family gatherings in the living room, Zung performs a Vietnamese dance in silhouette behind the set's back wall, which is bathed in a hot-pink light and becomes transparent...
...expected of him. At one moment he unexpectedly drops his pants, only to look down, surprised and confused, and say, "I didn't mean to do that." The more he grapples for the correct lines, the funnier the play becomes. Left alone on stage to deliver a Hamlet soliloquy, George runs through all the lines he has ever memorized, from the Pledge of Allegiance to quotes from Gone With the Wind...
...annoy you--they do all the reading. Sophomores are fine, but they also do a lot of reading. You are busy with seminars, conference courses, pre-thesis activities and the like. The last thing you need is an hour to listen while students eagerly call out and give a soliloquy on Michelangelo or Beethoven's Ninth. You have lost all patience by now. This is for somebody else, those who love to hear themselves speak (and there are some--many), but certainly...
...welcome one. The drama opens with the Rev. Lionel Espy (Josef Sommer) alone on the stage--or perhaps he is not alone, for we catch him in a moment of intense prayer. (The play captures many of its characters in prayer, a device that neatly resuscitates the traditional dramatic soliloquy.) Espy is an aging, equivocating figure caught in an equivocal time and place: contemporary South London, a run-down environment in which brutality and indifference raise doubts about the church's relevance. He's the sort of man whose ability to see both sides of a question is cited...
...perception: though this is a multigenerational chronicle that follows the main and minor figures of two Southern clans from 1904 to the present, the entire saga is really about only one person, the author. The trilogy is, not far under its surface of entrances and exits, a single long soliloquy--Price's own dark, spiraling meditation, mostly baffled and gloomy, often agonized, on human isolation...