The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin is a "one-hander" play by Australian playwright, author and singer Steve J. Spears (1951 – 2007).
[2] "Eventually... the thought struck me, I'll write a play about a female elocution teacher, and this poor snook about 25, sort of entrapped by this mad old lady... Then I decided to make it a bloke, a transvestite, and Benjamin happened.
"[2] A single actor plays "Robert O'Brien", an outwardly respectable elocution tutor based in a suburb of Melbourne.
[3] The play begins with O'Brien walking on stage naked, describing the foibles of his students as he dresses.
[4] In its Off-Broadway production in 1979, it won three Obie Awards: Chater as actor, Spears as playwright, and Richard Wherrett as director.