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  2. Claire Dowie - Wikipedia

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    Dowie's plays explore the themes of gender roles and sexuality. Among her most famous pieces of work are Adult Child / Dead Child, (awarded the Time Out Theatre Award in 1988), Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt? (winner of the London Fringe Award 1991), Drag Act, Easy Access (for the boys) and H to He – I'm turning into a man. She has ...

  3. Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain ...

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    The play is a parody of the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling, but from the perspective of the Puffs, who were inspired by the Hogwarts house, Hufflepuff. The play premiered at The People's Improv Theater on December 3, 2015. It moved to the Off-Broadway theater New World Stages in 2016. The show has been praised for its comedy and staging.

  4. X Minus One - Wikipedia

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    X Minus One is an American half-hour science fiction radio drama series that was broadcast from April 24, 1955, to January 9, 1958, in various timeslots on NBC.Known for high production values in adapting stories from the leading American authors of the era, X Minus One has been described as one of the finest offerings of American radio drama and one of the best science fiction series in any ...

  5. Comedy drama - Wikipedia

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    Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. In television, modern scripted comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcoms .

  6. Comedic genres - Wikipedia

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    Deals with disturbing subjects such as death, drugs, terrorism, rape, and war; sometimes related to the horror movie genre. Black comedy is usually said by a disliked character. Typically sexual in nature ( risqué) and/or using profane language; sometimes using gender- or race-based humor.

  7. Aangan (2018 TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Khameera Illahi ( Zaib Rehman) is a strict and serious matriarch of the haveli, having three sons and two daughters. Muzaffar ( Abid Ali ), her husband, an unethical man who doesn't care for his family, gets his son from another woman, Israr, to the haveli. Although Khameera lets him stay in the haveli, nobody accepts him in the family.

  8. The Mousetrap - Wikipedia

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    The Mousetrap. The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The Mousetrap opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic. It then re-opened on 17 May 2021.

  9. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    Drama (film and television) Gone with the Wind is a popular romance drama. In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. [1] The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or ...