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  2. Solo performance - Wikipedia

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    A solo performance, sometimes referred to as a one-man show, one-woman show, or one-person show, features a single person telling a story for an audience, typically for the purpose of entertainment. This type of performance comes in many varieties, including autobiographical creations, comedy acts, novel adaptations, vaudeville, poetry, music ...

  3. Category:Plays for one performer - Wikipedia

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    The Testament of Mary (play) They Call Me Q. Thom Pain (based on nothing) Three Kings (play) Thurgood (play) Ticker (play) Tongues (play) Topless (play) Torsten (Andy Bell series)

  4. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.

  5. Three Blind Mice (radio play and short story) - Wikipedia

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    The billing from the Radio Times issue of 25–31 May 1947, illustrating the night's programmes on radio for Queen Mary including the performance of Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice is the name of a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie, which was later adapted into a television film, a short story, and a popular stage production .

  6. Good Will Hunting - Wikipedia

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    Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.It stars Robin Williams, Damon, Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård and Minnie Driver.

  7. Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance - Wikipedia

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    The category was first presented at the 1984 ceremony, when it was known as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One Person Show, suspended for 1988 and 1989, returning in 1990 as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One Person Show/Solo Performance. The current name was first introduced in 1994, but then shifted across the three names until ...

  8. Announcer's test - Wikipedia

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    Announcer's tests originated in the early days of radio broadcasting, around 1920. The tests involved the pronunciation of difficult words, as well as retention, memory, repetition, enunciation, diction, and using every letter in the alphabet a variety of times. [1] An excerpt of one early test, forwarded from Phillips Carlin, who was known for ...

  9. And the Band Played On (film) - Wikipedia

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    And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode.The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, and is noteworthy for featuring both a vast historical scope, as well as an exceptionally sprawling cast.