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  2. The Long and the Short and the Tall (play) - Wikipedia

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    The Long and the Short and the Tall is a play written by British playwright Willis Hall. Set in the Second World War, the play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in January 1959; it was directed by Lindsay Anderson and starred Peter O'Toole and Robert Shaw. It was Anderson's first major production for the Royal Court, transferring ...

  3. The Thanksgiving Play - Wikipedia

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    The Thanksgiving Play is a satirical comedy written by Larissa FastHorse in 2015. The play follows a linear structure and incorporates informative moments to provide the audience with background knowledge on important events related to Native Americans. In 2017, it was recognized by the Kilroys as one of the best underproduced plays by a female ...

  4. 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.

  5. Old Love (story) - Wikipedia

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    Publisher. Hodder & Stoughton. " Old Love " is a short story written by English author Jeffrey Archer. Published in 1980 in Archer's A Quiver Full of Arrows by Hodder & Stoughton, it is the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry that ends in a tragic love story. [1] [2]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Collected Stories (play) - Wikipedia

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    1996. ( 1996-MM) Place premiered. South Coast Repertory. Costa Mesa, California. Original language. English. Collected Stories is a play by Donald Margulies which premiered at South Coast Repertory in 1996, and was presented on Broadway in 2010. The play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1997.

  8. Ray Bradbury short fiction bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1948. revised: The Martian Chronicles ('50) comic-strip: Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles Spaceman Special, June '94. "Asleep in Armageddon". alt. title: "Perchance to Dream". Planet Stories, winter 1948. "Touch and Go". alt. title: "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl".

  9. Indian classical drama - Wikipedia

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    The term Indian classical drama refers to the tradition of dramatic literature and performance in ancient India. The roots of drama in the Indian subcontinent can be traced back to the Rigveda (1200-1500 BCE), which contains a number of hymns in the form of dialogues, or even scenes, as well as hymns that make use of other literary forms such ...