{"id":100,"date":"2025-10-26T18:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:45:12","slug":"synopsis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/synopsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/headshotsPoster5POSTCARDnyFLAT_150dpi-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/headshotsPoster5POSTCARDnyFLAT_150dpi-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/headshotsPoster5POSTCARDnyFLAT_150dpi-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/headshotsPoster5POSTCARDnyFLAT_150dpi-768x1186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/headshotsPoster5POSTCARDnyFLAT_150dpi-600x927.jpg 600w, https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/headshotsPoster5POSTCARDnyFLAT_150dpi.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:5%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMonologue is a documentary that looks at the lives of 17 New York City Actors over the course of 14 years to see what they have learned about the business of acting. I was interested in why artists continue in the face of so much adversity and rejection. I wanted to answer the question of why people create in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 2011, 1 month before 9\/11, 53 actors were taped in New York City performing the monologues they were shopping around at the time and talking about the process of becoming a working actor. 14 years later I revisited 17 of the actors to see what they have learned since we met.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMonologue is a story of human perseverance against all odds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~ Edison Midgett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMonologue is a documentary that looks at the lives of 17 New York City Actors over the course of 14 years to see what they have learned about the business of acting. I was interested in why artists continue in the face of so much <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/synopsis\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmidgett.org\/monologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}