Abstract
This paper aims at introducing a critical reading of two Jordanian plays that belong to the monodrama genre: They
are The Night of Burying Actress Jim by Jamal Abu Hamdan, and Searching for Aziza Sulaiman by the late poet
and drama author Atif Faraya. The analysis emphasizes the technical and semantic aspects of the two plays.
The paper starts with pointing out the theoretical framework of the concept of “monodrama. This
theoretical framework includes multi definitions of the concept of “monodrama,” its roots in
theatre, its essential characteristics, and the harbingers it yields within the context of monodrama
in the western theatre, the Arab theatre in general, and the Jordanian theatre in particular.
Through an applied reading, this paper attempts to highlight the most significant techniques of
monodrama, including audio and visual in which private and inner stories are combined with general
and external stories through memory, invocation, interrogation, monologues, or dreaming, away from
the systemic time and close to the psychological moments that are not limited to chronological history