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All in the Timing is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993. It had its premiere Off-Broadway in 1993 at Primary Stages, [1] and was revived at Primary Stages in 2013. [2] It was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994, with a collection of six plays; however, the updated ...
27 Wagons Full of Cotton is a 1946 one-act play that Williams referred to as "a Mississippi Delta comedy." Jake, a middle-aged, shady cotton gin owner with antiquated equipment burns down the mill of the Syndicate Plantation, a rival in the cotton business, where Silva Vicarro serves as Superintendent.
One-act play. A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions. One act plays make up the overwhelming majority of Fringe Festival ...
Richard Kindersley 's sculpture The Seven Ages of Man in London. " All the world's a stage " is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare 's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages ...
Aristophanes (/ ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz /; [ 2 ] Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c.446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. [ 3 ] He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today.
The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895). First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy depicting ...
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4][5][6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...