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Line 4: \| caption = \| format = [[Music\|Musical]] [[Variety show\|variety]] \| runtime = 15 min./30 mins. \| creator = Lawrence Menkin \| director = Lawrence Menkin Line 19: }} '''''Monodrama Theater''''' also known as '''''Mono-Drama Theatre''''' was a [[late night television]] series which aired on the [[DuMont Television Network]] from 1952 to 1953. The series consisted of a single actor or actress performing in front of a curtain, or bare stage, in an example of [[monodrama]]. Some sources suggest this series, produced by Lawrence Menkin, also aired episodes of ''[[One Man's Experience]]'' and ''[[One Woman's Experience]]'', both also produced by Menkin. In a 1953 episode of ''Monodrama Theater'', actor [[Jack Manning (actor)\|Jack Manning]] performed a one-man show of ''[[Hamlet]]''. His show took place over the course of two weeks in 15-minute long segments. [[Jack Gould]], a [[television critic]] for the ''[[New York Times]]'', praised Manning's performance as Hamlet, calling him "inventive, versatile and, above all, natural." Gould also noted of Manning at the time that, "He knows his [[Shakespeare]] and truly catches the meaning of the lines."<ref>Jack Gould column, ''New York Times''</ref> ==Preservation status==