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Beauty Is the Word is Tennessee Williams' first play. The 12-page one-act was written in 1930 while Williams was a freshman at University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and submitted to a contest run by the school's Dramatic Arts Club. [1]
Botticelli was one of three one-act plays, under the overall title of Apple Pie (the other two were Tour and Next), which focused on the Vietnam War. It was directed by Glenn Jordan and starred Kevin O'Connor and Roy London. [1] Botticelli was presented on stage at the outdoor Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga Canyon, California in July and August ...
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 short plays are almost all comedies (or comedy dramas), focusing mainly on language and wordplay, existentialist perspectives on life and meaning, as well as the complications involved in romantic relationships. High-school and college students frequently perform the plays, often due to their brevity and undemanding staging requirements.
The two-act play Peter and Jerry had its world premiere at the Hartford Stage in 2004, with Pam MacKinnon directing and Frank Wood as Peter, Johanna Day as Ann, and Fred Weller as Jerry. [11] The play was produced Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre in 2007, and starred Bill Pullman, Dallas Roberts and Johanna Day. It was titled Peter and ...
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. [1] [2] The term can either refer to a conscious division placed within a work by a playwright (usually itself made up of multiple scenes) [3] or a unit of analysis for dividing a dramatic work into sequences.
The Chairs (French: Les Chaises) is a one-act play by Eugène Ionesco, described as an absurdist "tragic farce".It was first performed in Paris in 1952. [1]For Ionesco's Sandaliha (The Chairs), Bahman Mohasses [2] created a number of decorative and expressive chairs that when put together suggested an abstract forest.
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]