monologue

Gustav has translated the script into English to accommodate his star, but even a stunning monologue that Rachel performs during one rehearsal doesn’t feel quite right.

It’s a moment of breathtaking poise and mournful feeling, and it prepares us for what’s to come, when Ms. Huston delivers a monologue about a long-lost love with quiet, devastating force.

In Powell’s monologue, the actor admits he’s been so publicized that even he’s tired of seeing his own face.

Yet to many he was best experienced onstage, where he’d thread his songs into a kind of running monologue about his rough-and-tumble life.

Caesar did a Japanese samurai warrior into whose ersatz-Japanese monologue would slip in the occasional Yiddish word.