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This is used to categorise short, one-act dramas. It should not be used for full-length plays that have no act divisions. Pages in category "One-act plays"
All in the Timing is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993.It had its premiere Off-Broadway in 1993 at Primary Stages, [1] and was revived at Primary Stages in 2013. [2]
He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York Times in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form". [1] Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series. [2] [3]
Variations on the Death of Trotsky is a short one-act comedy-drama written by David Ives for the series of one-act plays titled All in the Timing. [1] The play fictionalizes the death of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky through a number of distinct variations, though all from the same, historically accurate cause: a wound to the head by an ice axe—referred to in the play as a "mountain ...
He said, "It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind." [1] The prototype, a short-lived one-act play called Exits, was written and performed in 1977. At the request of his associate, Michael Codron, Frayn expanded this into what would become Noises Off. It takes its title from the ...
Next is a one-act play by Terrence ... The play was then produced on television Channel 13 in New York City in March 1968. ... 15 short plays, Terrence McNally, Smith ...
Sure Thing is a short comic play by David Ives featuring a chance meeting of two characters, Betty and Bill, whose conversation is continually reset by the use of a ringing bell, starting over when one of them responds negatively to the other. The play was first produced in 1988, and was published in 1994. [1] [2]
Autobahn is a play written by Neil LaBute in 2003. It consists of seven short vignettes—each one involving just two people, and each one taking place entirely in the front seat of a car. It consists of seven short vignettes—each one involving just two people, and each one taking place entirely in the front seat of a car.