One-act play
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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. In recent years the 10-minute play known as "flash drama" has emerged as a popular sub-genre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions. The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of drama: in ancient Greece, Cyclops, a satyr play by Euripides, is an early example.
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One-act plays by major dramatists
- Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
- Anton Chekhov - A Marriage Proposal (1890)
- Arthur Miller - A Memory of Two Mondays (1955)
- Israel Horovitz - Line (1974)
- Eugene Ionesco - The Bald Soprano (1950)
- August Strindberg - Pariah (1888), Motherly Love (1892), and The First Warning (1892)
- Thornton Wilder - The Long Christmas Dinner (1931)
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