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The Exception and the Rule (German: Die Ausnahme und die Regel) is a short play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and is one of several Lehrstücke (Teaching plays) he wrote around 1929/30. The objective of Brecht's Lehrstücke was that they be taken on tour and performed in schools or in factories to educate the masses about socialist politics.
Drowning is a short play by María Irene Fornés. It was created as one of seven plays during the mid-1980’s based on short stories written by Anton Chekhov. [1] Fornés used his story as the framework upon which she built. Alongside Drowning Fornés also created her play Mud.
The short plays are almost all comedies (or comedy dramas), focusing mainly on language and wordplay, existentialist perspectives on life and meaning, as well as the complications involved in romantic relationships. High-school and college students frequently perform the plays, often due to their brevity and undemanding staging requirements.
Culture*Park Theatre's Annual Short Plays Marathon returns Nov. 18 featuring several plays from 2 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Whaling Museum.
Act Without Words I is a short play by Samuel Beckett.It is a mime, Beckett's first (followed by Act Without Words II).Like many of Beckett's works, the play was originally written in French (Acte sans paroles I), being translated into English by Beckett himself.
Ways and Means is a short comic play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up Tonight at 8.30, a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The story concerns an heiress and her gambling husband, who are plagued by debt and embarrassment as everything seems to always go wrong for them.
The play was made into an opera by Philip Hagemann (1984). [5] In 2021, Misalliance Repertory Theatre, a Chicago-based company, released a radio-play version of The Music Cure, which is available free to the public via the company's website, MisallianceRepertory.org.
Short Eyes is a 1974 drama written by playwright Miguel Piñero.The play premiered at the Theater of the Riverside Church, [1] was then produced off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater on February 28, 1974, and transferred after 54 performances to the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on May 23, 1974.