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PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER O'NEILL STUDIO
SINCE 1998, EXPLORING EUGENE O'NEILL'S PLAYS THROUGH THE BIOGRAPHICAL LENS OF
ARTHUR AND BARBARA GELB FOR THE PURPOSE OF INSPIRING NEW WORK.
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Monologues as Music
"The improvisation with singing engaged every last scrap of my energy and person."
In a recent O’Neill Studio Lab, a group of actors gathered at The Players Club to explore the problem of emotional “flow” in monologue work.
We made some discoveries that were, well, pretty wild, specially when the actors started to singalong with their own favs like Danielle, (pictured above singing the CeLoo Green song,"F**k You.")
Every actor knows that physical tension can really f**k them up and that just "trying to relax" does not do the trick.
In our Studio, actors establish a connection by slowing the text down, taking a breath at each point of transition and then waiting for a flow of feeling to begin before speaking the line on a light exhale.
Singing can deepen the connection. The actor can also sing a song that has a specific personal association with the monologue before working their way through it.
Also valuable is singing the monologue on an improvised tune by the actor before doing it solely as speech.
The linking of song and monologue created inner life for both actors who consider themselves singers and those who do not. It helped create emotional flow that was full, free and effortless.
From Lab participant Jayson
“I’ve never considered myself a singer. It allows me to let loose, relax and not think so much.”
From Danielle
"I found the use of music very helpful in going deeper in the monologue, both in singing a complementary song beforehand and performing the monologue as a song itself. Singing the song before my text helped me to establish a flow because, as you pointed out, I can find the flow more quickly and consistently when I sing. When I improvised the monologue as a song, the words and emotions instantly became so fresh and spontaneous because I truly had no idea what sort of sound would come out of my mouth. I surprised myself. I allowed myself to change the color, quality, and volume of the text in ways that I probably wouldn’t have discovered by spoken repetition alone. Most importantly, I think the improvisation of the music encouraged me to engage every last scrap of my energy and person.
The song work combines with our Independent Artist Track. For more info on the IA Track CLICK