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Line 21: ==Production background== The series consisted of a single actor or actress performing in front of a black curtain, or bare stage, with recorded music cues, in an example of [[monodrama]]. Some sources suggest this series, produced by Lawrence Menkin (1911-2000), also aired episodes of ''[[One Man's Experience]]'' and ''[[One Woman's Experience]]'', both also produced by Menkin. Filming took place at a tiny studio at 515 Madison Avenue.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2uN_AkdwAioC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=monodrama+theater+dumont+tv+series&source=bl&ots=nNV5ptaBf5&sig=4sOJqsa4FX8mjgrjw5loSrlI6Bc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=h1OtUb35NaaniQLFiYD4DQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=monodrama%20theater%20dumont%20tv%20series&f=false Ed McMahon, ''When Television Was Young'' (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2007), p. 70]</ref> In a 1953 episode of ''Monodrama Theater'', actor [[Jack Manning (actor)\|Jack Manning]] performed a one-man show of ''[[Hamlet]]''. His perfomance 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>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E3DC1338F933A1575AC0A96F9C8B63 ''New York Times'', Jack Manning obituary (September 20, 2009)]</ref>