monopolylogue

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monopolylogue (mon-uh-POL-i-log) - n., a performance in which one person plays multiple characters.


Often, especially, all of them. Not a new coinage (which is from mono-, one + poly-, many + -logue, talk) as it dates to 1819, used in a playbill advertising a performance by Charles Mathews. Charles Dickens would, on reading tours, perform monopolylogues of his own works.

—L.

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[full_metal_ox]

As in this famous DC Animated Universe short, where it’s Mark Hamill (including as himself!) all the way down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE