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  2. List of works by Harold Pinter - Wikipedia

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    The Go-Between (1970) The Homecoming (1969) Langrishe, Go Down (1970; adapted for TV 1978; film release 2002) The Proust Screenplay (1972) — published 1978, but unproduced for film; adapted by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis for the stage (2000); cf. Remembrance of Things Past. The Last Tycoon (1974)

  3. List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams - Wikipedia

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    The Palooka. The Palooka is a 1937 one-act about an old has-been boxer. The characters are The Palooka (Galveston Joe), The Kid and The Trainer. The Kid is nervous about his first fight, and The Palooka relieves the Kid's anxiety by telling about the fictional life he wanted to lead after he retired as Galveston Joe.

  4. Noises Off - Wikipedia

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    Comedy. Noises Off is a 1982 farce by the English playwright Michael Frayn. Frayn conceived the idea in 1970 while watching from the wings a performance of The Two of Us, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave. He said, "It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind." [1]

  5. Black Comedy (play) - Wikipedia

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    Black Comedy. (play) Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965. The premise of the piece is that light and dark are transposed, so that when the stage is lit the cast are supposed to be in darkness and only when the stage is dark are they supposed to be able to see each other and their surroundings.

  6. Blithe Spirit (play) - Wikipedia

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    Blithe Spirit. (play) Margaret Rutherford (Madame Arcati), Kay Hammond (Elvira) and Fay Compton (Ruth), 1941. Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts". [1] The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame ...

  7. Improvisational theatre - Wikipedia

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    Improvisational theatre. Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers. In its purest form, the dialogue, action, story, and characters are created collaboratively by the players as ...

  8. The Gods of Comedy - Wikipedia

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    The Gods of Comedy. The Gods of Comedy is a play by American playwright Ken Ludwig. It was first produced as a co-production between McCarter Theatre ( Emily Mann (director), Artistic Director; Michael S. Rosenberg, Managing Director) and Old Globe Theatre ( Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director). [1] It was directed by Amanda Dehnert, with Scenic ...

  9. 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 .

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