A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes....
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of the one-act plays written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Beauty Is the Word is Tennessee Williams' first play. The 12-page one-act was written...
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A One-Act Play Festival is a festival of one-act plays, often in a competitive format. Plays are usually presented over a weekend, week or longer period...
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Act One is a play written by James Lapine, based on Moss Hart's 1959 autobiography of the same title. The play premiered on Broadway in 2014. Act One...
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Act One most often refers to the first act of a play, opera, or other dramatic performance. Act One, Act I, ACTI and similar may also refer to: Act One...
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McNeal is a one-act stage play written by Ayad Akhtar. The play deals with topics such as artificial intelligence, artistic integrity, plagiarism, and...
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Interscholastic League's annual State One-Act Play competition. Information can be found on the official UIL website under “One Act Play & Theatrical Design State...
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An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, ballet, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes. The term can...
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One Act Play is an instrumental rock, post-rock band from Dallas, Texas. Heavily influenced by and often compared to bands such as Mogwai, Explosions In...
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The Ugly Duckling is a one-act play by A.A. Milne written c. 1941. The king and queen are worried because their daughter, Princess Camilla, is very plain...
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Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on...
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Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. It is about a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric...
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Here We Are is a one-act play adapted from a short story of the same name by Dorothy Parker. Set in the early 1930s in a Pullman car on a train to New...
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Eugene O'Neill (redirect from Welded (play))
Village. Some of these early plays, such as The Emperor Jones, began downtown and then moved to Broadway. In an early one-act play, The Web, written in 1913...
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The American Dream is an early, one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. It premiered in 1961. The play premiered Off-Broadway on January 24,...
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Tennessee Williams (section One-act plays)
One-Act Plays (2005) Dragon Country: a book of one-act plays (1970) The Traveling Companion and Other Plays (2008) The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays...
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is the film version of the 1959 autobiographical book Act One by playwright Moss Hart. A play based on the book premiered on Broadway in 2014. George...
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Tim Luscombe. The Theatre Royal Bath put the play on in 2009 in a double bill with Chekhov's one-act play Swansong, both starring Peter Bowles. A production...
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The Zoo Story (category One-act plays)
The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks. Rejected...
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The Wedding (Russian: Свадьба, romanized: Svadba) is an 1889 Russian one-act play by Anton Chekhov. Evdokim Zaharovitch Zhigalov Nastasya Timofeyevna Dashenka...
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The Dumb Waiter (redirect from The Dumb Waiter (play))
is a one-act play by Harold Pinter written in 1957. Two hit-men, Ben and Gus, are waiting in a basement room for their assignment. As the play begins...
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The Wolves is a one-act play by Sarah DeLappe. It premiered Off-Broadway at The Duke at 42nd Street in September 2016, produced by The Playwrights Realm...
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Agatha Christie bibliography (redirect from Rule of Three (play))
stories, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies. She also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. One of Christie's plays, The Mousetrap...
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national amateur organisations in the home nations promote a series of one-act play festivals and, through various eliminating rounds, take part in the final...
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The Sandbox is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee, first performed in 1959. The play explores themes of familial relationships, neglect...
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Herman Heijermans (section Plays)
Ahasverus (1893); one-act play Vorstendom (1893); one-act play, later performed as Ego Puntje (1898); one-act play Het antwoord (1898); one-act play The Ghetto...
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(French: Salomé, pronounced [salɔme]) is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original version of the play was first published in French in 1893; an English...
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Irion County High School (section One Act Play)
Sweepstakes Archived 2011-11-17 at the Wayback Machine UIL One Act Play Archives UIL One Act Play Archives UIL One Act Play Archives Irion County ISD...
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The Humans is a one-act play written by Stephen Karam. The play opened on Broadway in 2016 after an engagement Off-Broadway in 2015. The Humans was a...
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W;t (also written as Wit) is a one-act play written by American playwright Margaret Edson, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Edson used her...
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