Best Monologue

Photo: Michael Britt

Leave it to Alicia Haymer to find a foothold in an ensemble crowded with talent and catapult herself to the front of the line. Nashville Story Garden’s Dance Nation was strong all around during its run this summer, but Haymer delivered the most thrilling five minutes of theater all year with her monologue as Ashlee. At the start of it, her character is a teenage girl gently affirming her worth. But something important happens in the midst of it — she finds her power. Haymer seemed to deliver the monologue with the strength of every pissed-off woman in the whole fucking country. She lifted us up, and was met with riotous applause and shouts of solidarity. ERICA CICCARONE

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