Children and Drama in Education: A Perspective on Mono and Solo Dramatic Performance

Abstract

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