- characters, the term "straight play" can be used. For a
brief play, the term "
playlet" is
occasionally emplo****. The term "script"
pertains to the
written text...
- An
afterpiece is a short,
usually humorous one-act
playlet or
musical work
following the main attraction, the full-length play, and
concluding the theatrical...
-
Puritan government during the Interregnum. Even
during this time, however,
playlets known as
drolls were
often performed illegally,
including one
called The...
- and
brains enough to do it". Shaw's next
attempt at
drama was a one-act
playlet in French, Un
Petit Drame,
written in 1884 but not
published in his lifetime...
-
Experimental Theatre Club that they
called In Your Mind, with one
extended playlet titled Two
Americans in Paris. Two
Americans in
Paris was set in Paris...
- mid-16th century,
Commedia dell'arte
troupes performed lively improvisational playlets across Europe for centuries.
Commedia dell'arte was an actor-centred theatre...
- ****ociated Press. p. 25.
Retrieved June 13, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. "
Playlet Aids S.P.C.A." The
Philadelphia Inquirer. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. April...
-
Other plays as
writer Year
Title Notes Ref. 1921 The Ruby Ring
Vaudeville playlet 1922 The
Hussy Unproduced 1930
Frisco Kate Unproduced,
later produced as...
- in
structure to his
earlier Plaza Suite, the
comedy is
composed of four
playlets set in
Suite 203-04,
which consists of a
living room and an
adjoining bedroom...
-
vernacular "mystery plays",
which were
composed of long
cycles of many
playlets or "pageants", of
which four are extant: York (48 plays),
Chester (24)...
