one-act play

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play
noun
uk
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/pleɪ/
a piece of writing that is intended to be acted in a theatre or on radio ...
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It has also been adapted into aone-actplay.
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Accomplishments include creating aone-actplayfestival and producing a variety of theatrical productions.
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As aone-actplay, the drama lacks the breaks that would traditionally determine its structure.
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Indeed, theone-actplayinvolves a single character in a single room with a telephone.
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The scenes are frequently performed together as aone-actplay.
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Aone-actplaywhere a brother and sister try to make sense of their dysfunctional childhood.
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In the same year a student madeone-actplaywas also entered into another competition and won first.
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A school performs aone-actplayor cutting of a longer work with more than two characters.
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This book consists of aone-actplaywritten in verse and 30 poems written in traditional forms.
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The different districts are each separated into groups and then compete against each other by doing aone-actplay.
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Century's drama department puts on an annualone-actplayfestival in addition to standard plays each year.
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He participated in speech events (debate and extemporaneous speaking), and played lead roles inone-actplayand senior play.
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These productions include a full-length play in the fall, aone-actplayfestival in the winter, and a musical in the spring.
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In recent years, the 10-minute play known as flash drama has emerged as a popular sub-genre of theone-actplay, especially in writing competitions.
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It was written as a series of non sequiturs and a parody of classical dramait has three acts despite being short enough to qualify as aone-actplay.
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