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mon·o·dra·ma

 (mŏn′ə-drä′mə, -drăm′ə)
n.
A dramatic composition written for one performer.

mon′o·dra·mat′ic (-drə-măt′ĭk) adj.
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monodrama

(ˈmɒnəʊˌdrɑːmə)
n
(Theatre) a play or other dramatic piece for a single performer
ˌmonodraˈmatic adj
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mon•o•dra•ma

(ˈmɒn əˌdrɑ mə, -ˌdræm ə)

n., pl. -mas.
a dramatic piece for only one performer.
[1785–95]
mon`o•dra•mat′ic (-drəˈmæt ɪk) adj.
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monodrama

a drama written for one actor or character. — monodramatic, adj.
See also: Drama
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The theater will fade into history once Yoon Suk-hwa's farewell monodrama performance "Letter to a Daughter" slated for June 11 to 22 wraps up.
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Dwight Culler once wrote of Alfred Lord Tennyson's verse monodrama. In precisely the same vein, Culler encouraged readers of Tennyson's dramatic monologue "Ulysses" to "[i]magine Ulysses seated disconsolate," suggesting that if only "one had not been conditioned by a century and a half of silent reading, of deliberately playing down the metrical and rhetorical effects of poetry, one would understand ...
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