(RUN Journal Of Cultural Studies, 2018) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
Solo and mono performances are not very regular art forms in today's
performance experience. However, the ability to perform as it were
may have been imbued in everyone especially from birth.
Consequently, the ability to develop this innate quality is enhanced by
one's capacity to engage in constant practice. This paper espouses that
a child who self-performs continuously in private, also undergoes
immense self-criticism to acquire sufficient boldness to perform solo in
the presence of adults. It also finds that during mono performance(s),
children stutter and through such failures they learn to overcome both
personal and societal obstacles in life. Thus, children who
spontaneously enact actions in front of adults had gone through both
emotional and physical catharsis as they self-rehearse in the privacy of
their acting space