Why Solo?
by Keir Cutler
Rant Demon, which will be remounted at the 2011 Wildside Festival at Centaur Theatre in January, is my eighth original solo show.
I have performed my monologues so often, in so many places, it seems that one-man shows is all I ever intended to do. But in reality, I started out wanting to be a playwright of traditional plays, to be performed by multiple actors. I even got a diploma in playwriting from the National Theatre School. For years I sent out my writings throughout the English-speaking world. Occasionally, I would receive back a nice letter of encouragement, or someone would arrange a reading. Nothing ever got fully staged, but I do have a nice collection of letters from artistic directors asking me to be sure to send them my next play.
