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The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of recorded Western drama: in ancient Greece, Cyclops, a satyr play by Euripides, is an early example. The satyr play was a farcical short work that came after a trilogy of multi-act serious drama plays. A few notable examples of one act plays emerged before the 19th century ...
Here We Are is a one-act play [1] 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 York City, it explores through dialogue the already-testy relationship between a newly married young man and young woman setting out on their honeymoon.
Line is a 1967 one-act play by Israel Horovitz, his first play produced. It is an absurdist drama about 5 people waiting in line for an event (what event it is, is never made clear—several of the characters' stated expectations contradict the others). Each of the characters uses their wiles in an attempt to be first in line, getting more and ...
It should not be used for full-length plays that have no act divisions. Pages in category "One-act plays" The following 138 pages are in this category, out of 138 total.
The play opens and closes completely normally—"Philip Glass" enters a bakery, where in passing he encounters an old love of his accompanied by a friend. [ 4 ] Between the two ends of this scene, in a long section marked by the ringing of a bell (a recurring device in Ives' plays), come rhythmic reorderings of the words used in the opening and ...
McNeal is a one-act stage play written by Ayad Akhtar. [1] Summary ... Previews of the play began on Broadway on September 5, 2024, ...
Tonight at 8.30 [n 1] is a cycle of ten one-act plays by Noël Coward, presented in London in 1936 and in New York in 1936–1937, with the author and Gertrude Lawrence in the leading roles. The plays are mostly comedies, but three, The Astonished Heart, Shadow Play and Still Life, are serious. Four of the comedies include songs, with words and ...
A Rat's Mass is a poetic, magical-realist one-act play written in 1967 by African-American playwright Adrienne Kennedy. [1] [2] [3] The play portrays the negative aspects of the black experience in the United States by depicting two African-American children longing for a white child. [4]