- 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...
- 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...
-
disgruntled Northern playwright Alan
Hammond in the
final episode of the
playlet series Victoria Wood. Broadbent's film
breakthrough came in Mike Leigh's...
- mid-16th century,
Commedia dell'arte
troupes performed lively improvisational playlets across Europe for centuries.
Commedia dell'arte was an actor-centred theatre...
- indiscretions. Each of the 6
episodes was a self-contained, untitled,
playlet. The director/producer was
Michael Mills, with
scripts by Dave Freeman...
-
Puritan government during the Interregnum. Even
during this time, however,
playlets known as
drolls were
often performed illegally,
including one
called The...
-
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...
-
Lionel Barrymore and
starring Robert Ames and
Carroll Nye. It is
based on a
playlet by
Kenyon Nicholson.
Robert Ames as 1st
Soldier Carroll Nye as 2nd Soldier...
- 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...
- The
British Party System (1944) is a "
playlet" by
George Bernard Shaw
satirically analysing the
origins of the
party system in
British politics in the...
