Sunday, February 28, 2010
Solo Shows Spawn a New Theatrical Industry
NYTimes.com: "THE self-written solo performance has reached such ubiquity in New York that it’s easy to forget how recently the genre became, well, a genre. Five years ago “solo show” wasn’t even marketed as a separate category at the summer New York International Fringe, the city’s biggest theater festival. In 2006 submissions of solo works jumped to 125, a 20 percent increase over the previous year."
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It's been interesting to watch the Solo Show evolve from something that most critics looked at as niche' and isolated to an extent. The fact that it's managed to carve out it's own branch of the industry is the more impressive part, especially since it's done this in a relatively short period of time. I find it interesting that theater seems to be returning to it's older Greek style given that the latest big thing in theater is literally one actor and little to not set. Who knows, maybe it'll be only a matter of time until the return of The Chorus as a character.
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