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You bet I'm having a voluminous day in "Wild Magic". What's not to allying with the amazing audiences, inventive chicken tracks, and two dynamic, major-talented fellow cast sections, Winnipeggers Stefanie Wiens and Nancy Drake.

that personal blog, however, is about the glory and the terror, the shock and awe, of one-man shows.

As innumerable of you will grasp, I wrote and performed two of them in Winnipeg: 05 ("Smoked Glass Ceiling") and 06 ("McCarthy and the Old Woman"). bit of the terror and the glory is that in a one-hander you have to emancipate yourself. You're flying out a net. You may crash to bits, on the floor, totally out-of-doors resources and words, beyond any flashes of improvisational inspiration. Lost in duration and space. It's scary.

When striving to retail my one-mortal shows to clever Fringe-goers, some will ask in a hostile tone of voice: "Is it upright a monologue"? All one-body shows are definitely not monologues, and here's some praise for these multiple character tour de forces.

For detailed portrayals, with a cast of hundreds, played by one-woman see:
--Tricia Cooper’s "Homely Woman #2"
--June Morrow's "Miss April Day’s School for Burgeoning Young Strippers"
--Cara Yeates' "Bye Bye Bombay". that one includes puppets, as well as the added conscious racket characters that Yeates plays.

Note that I'm talking about shows written and performed by the ditto customer. Frequently (though not always) such shows, in my opinion are plus tops in honesty, conviction, and the willingness of the writers to bare their souls.
The performer / playwright has decided that that is the maximum marked thing for them to say right now.

Now to monologues. The art cut where the narrative is carried by one character, frequently with little staging:
--Matthew Bellwood's "Be Prepared" for candor, for telling the truth dead ringer when it's embarrassing. that is a modest manifestation, with an engagingly modest performer.
--Rod McDonald's "Paradise: A Canadian Soldier in Viet Nam" for turning the spotlight on an unknown comedy that we hurting for to listen.

There are more gigantic ones, I'm decided, that I did not see. Thanks guys. that is a brave art design.

Goodbye for 2007. And since I committed myself to 5 Winnipeg Fringes, I hope to be back next year of achievement - with or outwardly my lovely weird sisters to gratis me.

Rita Shelton Deverell