Examples of 'one-act' in a sentence

Meaning of "one-act"

One-act (noun): A one-act play is a theatrical performance that consists of a single act, typically shorter in duration than a full-length play. These plays often focus on a single storyline or theme, with no intermissions

How to use "one-act" in a sentence

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The one-act is presented at the regional level.
I need to bear down and finish my one-act.
Subscribe to the one-act plays they performed.
The festival is a collection of six one-act plays.
One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes.
This work is a short one-act play written in verse.
The scenes are frequently performed together as a one-act play.
This is the second one-act play that he wrote.
Radicalization and revolution do not proceed like a one-act play.
I heard your little one-act play at the gala failed.
There are many playwrighting contests looking for one-act plays.
Schmitt has also written three one-act plays for humanitarian causes.
The one-act farsa had a significant influence on the development of comic opera.
I wanted the show to have three one-act segments.
Farse were normally one-act operas, sometimes performed together with short ballets.

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Brill and the missus are costars in our own private one-act play.
One-act plays in a variety of styles became the predominant form of the time.
I also have filming for a one-act play in two days.
Indeed, the one-act play involves a single character in a single room with a telephone.
We help them write and produce one-act plays on the weekends.
On occasion he composed some of the music himself, especially for his one-act ballets.
Each team will perform its one-act play for the class.
He wrote a further twelve in the remaining sixteen years of his life, mostly one-act pieces.
Pair a guided investigative tour with a one-act that deconstructs the crime.
His one-act opera is the only sure finished work for the stage by the composer.
Team members will write and then rehearse their one-act play.
I overheard one of the servers discussing a one-act play he wants your mother to produce.
You and Barbara conspired to put on that little one-act play.
Each theater major directs a one-act production their senior year, as part of a campus theater festival.
It seems to have been an inexpensive production, set to work as one-act theatrical play.
Next is a one-act play by Terrence McNally.
To produce and direct four presentations of one-act plays written by the artist.
Confusions is a play by Alan Ayckbourn consisting of a series of five interconnected one-act plays.
It was one of three one-act plays presented under the collective title of Shrapnel.
His English teacher came to me about the one-act play that he wrote.
One-act comedy about what happened to Cinderella after she married the prince.
The play was first produced as one-act plays in tours following the San Francisco earthquake.
One-act operas which make up The Triptych have always been imagined to be performed together.
I wrote when I was ten into a one-act play.
Merging is a one-act play written by Charles Messina.
The University Theatre presents an evening of four new one-act plays.
Titanic is a one-act play written by Christopher Durang.
Their first public performances were a series of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams.
Lesbia is a one-act play written by Richard Davey.
Last week you missed my class performing an original one-act play that I wrote.
Edmond is a one-act play written by David Mamet.
This subsequently evolved into an annual Summer One-Act Play Festival.
One-act opera based on the story by Nikolai Gogol.
His first play was a one-act called Welcome Home.
The one-act I gave you guys to read a week ago.

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