monodrama
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A monodrama is a theatrical or dramatic piece played by a single actor or performer, usually portraying one character.
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- In spoken drama
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A monodrama is a theatrical or dramatic piece played by a single actor or performer, usually portraying one character.
== In opera == In opera, a monodrama was originally a melodrama with one role such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Pygmalion, which was written in 1762 and first staged in Lyon in 1770, and Georg Benda's work of the same name (1779).
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