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one-act, a.
[one numeral a. 34 a.]
Denoting a short play or other production consisting of a single act. Hence as n., such a play. So one-ˈacter, a one-act play; also fig.
1888Playgoers' Mag. Feb. 45 The story of Carton's self-sacrifice would form a touching little one-act play. 1895Pall Mall G. 11 Oct. 11/2 ‘The Burglar and the Judge’, the very clever one-acter by F. C. Philipps and C. H. Brookfield. 1905Athenæum 7 Oct. 477/3 The one-act trifle which serves as lever de rideau. 1912E. Nesbit Let. in D. L. Moore E. Nesbit (1933) xv. 269, I have had a one-act play accepted by a London manager. 1927J. Pollock (title) Twelve one-acters. 1940G. Marx Let. 5 Sept. (1967) 25 El Capitan.. has done magnificently with the Coward one-acts. 1960A. Coren in Introduction: Stories by New Writers 70 The sane guy is the one who realises that life is a short one-acter. 1967Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 223/2 The one-act play survives mainly in the productions of the amateur theatre in England and America. 1967Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Apr. 18/4 The play for the evening was Lanford Wilson's ‘The Madness of Lady Bright’, a 45-minute one-acter. 1973Guardian 23 Mar. 12/3 Tchaikovsky's seventh and last opera is a one-acter. 1976Scottish Rev. Spring 17 The Stick-Up, a one-acter from Fifteen Poems and a Play (Edinburgh, 1969). 1977L. Meynell Hooky gets Wooden Spoon xiii. 157 She had written a one-act play for herself. |
