{"id":28825,"date":"2025-04-05T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/sa\/24-hour-plays-celebrate-the-5th-anniversary-of-viral-monologues-with-secret-performance-new-works\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:24:07","slug":"24-hour-plays-celebrate-the-5th-anniversary-of-viral-monologues-with-secret-performance-new-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/24-hour-plays-celebrate-the-5th-anniversary-of-viral-monologues-with-secret-performance-new-works\/","title":{"rendered":"24 hour plays celebrate the 5th anniversary of viral monologues with secret performance, new works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a title=\"Film &#038; TV News\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/category\/film-tv-news\">Film and TV news<\/a><span>24 hour plays celebrate the 5th anniversary of viral monologues with secret performance, new works<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>The secret performance event showed monologues written by Hugh Dancy, Santino Fontana, Nina Hellman, and more.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>            <img src='https:\/\/assets.playbill.com\/editorial\/_articleLeadImage\/Vertical_Option_2_2__11.png' alt><figcaption>                <span>                                                                                        Hugh Dancy                                                       <\/span>            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 24 -hour plays celebrated the fifth anniversary of its Viral Monologues series on March 31 in Brooklyn with a secret performance that shows new monologues, who wrote, practiced and performed over 24 hours, along with live performances. The event kicked off a week -long celebration of the series.<\/p>\n<p>The group launched the series in March 2020, intended to be a socially distanced version of the usual 24 -hour programming. The series published on YouTube and Instagram, and the series has involved more than 1,000 artists who created new work during Lockdown, which has watched more than six million times. The series has since been archived by the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously it was the early days of all of us sitting around,&#8221; said <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/hugh-dancy-vault-0000100961\">Hugh Dancy<\/a> While hosting the 31st March event. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even know if we call it&#8221; the pandemic &#8220;at that point, but all we really have in common was that we didn&#8217;t know what the hell was going on. These were many more questions than answers &#8230; We just waited. At that moment, [24 Hour Plays Artistic Director] <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/mark-armstrong-vault-0000019234\">Mark Armstrong<\/a>The email address appeared in my inbox and basically said, &#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to get enthusiasm, if you are interested in recording a monologue at home, just write back one word: Yes.&#8221; And I didn&#8217;t really think about it, I just wrote yes back! &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The evening also contains Denis O&#8217;hare (<em>American horror story<\/em>), <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/santino-fontana-vault-0000069612\">Santino Fontana<\/a> (<em>Frozen<\/em>), <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/jeremy-shamos-vault-0000087652\">Jeremy Shamos<\/a> (<em>Clybourne<\/em> <em>Park<\/em>), Nina Hellman (<em>Wet hot American summer<\/em>), <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/morgan-siobhan-green\">Morgan Siobhan Green<\/a> (<em>Hadestown<\/em>), <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/david-hull-vault-0000115846\">David hull<\/a> (<em>Crazy ex -girlfriend<\/em>), Ashby Gentry (<em>My life with the Walter boys<\/em>), <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/david-lindsay-abaire-vault-0000005987\">David Lindsay-ABaire<\/a> (<em>Kimberly<\/em> <em>Aittu<\/em>), Christopher Oscar Pe\u00f1a (<em>Promised Land<\/em>), <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/stephen-adly-guirgis-vault-0000115978\">Stephen Adly Guirgis<\/a> (<em>Between<\/em> <em>Riverside and crazy<\/em>), <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/warren-leight-vault-0000027962\">Warren Leight<\/a> (<em>Law and order: SVU<\/em>), Nest Hutchinson (<em>American<\/em>), Michael Mitnick (<em>Scotland, father<\/em>), Rachel Axler (<em>Livest<\/em>), and <a data-crosslink href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lily-houghton-writer\">Lily Houghton<\/a> (<em>Forbidden<\/em> <em>Fruit<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Monologists of the March 31 show will be released on Instagram and YouTube this week. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/4hourplays.org\/vm-celebration\" target=\"_blank\">24HourPlays.org<\/a> For more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film and TV news 24 hour plays celebrate the 5th anniversary of viral monologues with secret performance, new works The secret performance event showed monologues written by Hugh Dancy, Santino Fontana, Nina Hellman, and more. 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