This work is composed of three one-act operas: a horrific episode ( Il tabarro ), in the style of the Parisian Grand Guignol, a sentimental tragedy ( Suor Angelica ), and a comedy ( Gianni Schicchi ).

L ' Étincelle ( 1879 ), a brilliant one-act comedy, secured another success, and in 1881 with Le Monde où l ' on s ' amuse Pailleron produced one of the most strikingly successful pieces of the period.

Méhul responded with L ' irato (" The Angry Man "), a one-act comedy premiered as the work of the Italian composer " Fiorelli " in 1801.

The Stuyvesant Theater Community puts on three student-run productions a year ( a fall musical, a winter drama, and a spring comedy ) as well as a one-act festival and several smaller studio productions.

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( Awakening ), while the journalist Şinasi is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( The Poet's Marriage ).

Among his other plays are the one-act comedy Monsieur de Crac dans son petit castel ( 1791 ), Les Artistes ( 1796 ), Les Mœurs du jour ( 1800 ) and Malice pour malice ( 1803 ).

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ) also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( انتباه ; " Awakening "), while the journalist İbrahim Şinasi ( 1826 – 1871 ) is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( شاعر اولنمسى ; " The Poet's Marriage ").

His first, Der Rubin ( 1893 ) was an oriental fantasy ; Die Abreise ( 1898 ), which established him as an opera composer in Germany, was a one-act domestic comedy ; Kain ( 1900 ) was a setting of the biblical story ; and one of his last operas, Der Golem, was on a traditional Jewish theme.

* La Part du roi ( 1872 ), a one-act verse comedy

The précieuses remembered through the filter of Molière's one-act satire of them in Les précieuses ridicules ( 1659 ), a bitter comedy of manners that brought Molière and his company to the attention of Parisians, after years of touring the provinces, and attracted the patronage of Louis XIV ; it still plays well today.

It reopened on 13 January 1891 with a performance of Jerome K. Jerome's comedy, Woodbarrow Farm, preceded by Herbert Keith's one-act play The Note of Hand.

According to the Oxford Companion to African-American Literature, her theatre works included Deep Rivers ( 1939 ), a musical ; It's Morning ( 1940 ), a one-act tragedy about a slave mother who contemplates infanticide ; I Gotta Home ( 1940 ), a one-act drama ; Track Thirteen ( 1940 ), a comedy for radio and her only published play ; Elijah's Raven ( 1941 ), a three-act comedy ; and Dust to Earth ( 1941 ), a three-act tragedy.

Paris By Night is a popular Vietnamese language musical variety show, produced by Thúy Nga and hosted by Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên, featuring musical performances by modern pop stars, traditional folk songs, one-act plays, and sketch comedy.

At this period a " programme " at Drury Lane would always be a double-bill-a main work, and a one-act " afterpiece " which was usually a comedy.

Cornelius planned the work as a one-act comedy, but on the advice of Franz Liszt expanded it to two.

In 1782 also he produced a one-act prose comedy, Le Bon Ménage, and in the next year Galatie, a romantic tale in imitation of the Galatea of Cervantes.

Earlier in the same year, Rupp played Helen, the wife of a cheating husband, in Sharon Tipsword's one-act comedy Second Verse, which was produced as part of a play festival at New York's Nat Horne Theater.

Blurred, is a one-act play that contains social comment and black comedy.

Since 2001, there have been performances of " The conventillo de la Paloma " ( Paloma's boarding house ), a one-act comedy by Alberto Vacarezza.

Offenbach's earliest one-act pieces included Les deux aveugles, Le violoneux and Ba-ta-clan ( all 1855 ), and his first full-length operetta success was Orphée aux enfers ( 1858 ).

The challenge was to set the one-act libretto of Le docteur Miracle by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy.

Bizet's early one-act opera Le docteur Miracle provides the first clear signs of his promise in this genre, its sparkling music including, according to Dean, " many happy touches of parody, scoring and comic characterisation ".

Beaucé, he traveled for some time in North Africa, and soon after his return to Paris in 1860 he produced a volume of satires, Les Parasites, and a one-act piece, Le Parasite, which was represented at the Odéon.

In 1813 the unfavourable reception of his one-act debut opera Le Séjour militaire put an end for some years to his attempts as composer.

Contes d ' une vieille fille a ses neveux ( 1832 ), La Canne de Monsieur de Balzac ( 1836 ) and Il ne faut pas jouer avec la douleur ( 1853 ) are among the best-known of her romances ; and her dramatic pieces in prose and verse include L ' École des journalistes ( 1840 ), Judith ( 1843 ), Cléopâtre ( 1847 ), Lady Tartufe ( 1853 ), and the one-act comedies, C ' est la faute du mari ( 1851 ), La Joie fait peur ( 1854 ), Le Chapeau d ' un horloger ( 1854 ) and Une Femme qui deteste son mari, which did not appear till after the author's death.

Massenet also wrote a one-act sequel to Manon, Le portrait de Manon ( 1894 ), involving the Chevalier des Grieux as an older man.

His compositions reflect his stage-orchestra background, being mostly light music for ballet and operas: Ange et démon, Le Rêve de Nicette, Les Caprices de Margot ( one-act opéra comique, Lyon, 1877 ), Reine des fleurs, Fleurs et papillons, Les Écharpes, Le Meunier, Arlequin écolier, Faublas ( three-act operetta, Théâtre Cluny, Paris, 1881 ).

Among these are an absurdist work exploring themes of Sadism entitled " The Twilight Maelstrom of Cookie Lavagetto ", a cycle of one-act plays called Le Theatre de Malaise and the 1964 dark satire The Death of JFK.

Mackenzie's other operas were a one-act opera, The Cricket on the Hearth, first performed in 1914, The Eve of St John ( 1924 ), and two almost-complete operas, The Cornish Opera and Le luthier.

In 1878 he published, in collaboration with L Vonoven, a volume of short stories, and in the next year the two produced a one-act piece, Le Mari malgre lui, at the Théâtre Cluny.

In 1894 Petipa returned to choreography from his long infirmity with the one-act Le Réveil de Flore ( The Awakening of Flora ), set to the music of Drigo.

For the celebrations held at the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre in honor of the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II, Petipa presented the one-act ballet to Drigo's music, Le Perle, which proved to be the greatest success during the gala of.

Where Lope de Vega had adapted the theme to a problem play in the 17th century, the French composer Albert Grisar used it as the basis for his one-act comic opera of 1855, Le chien du jardinier.

In early 1876, Carte requested that Gilbert and Sullivan create another one-act opera on the theme of burglars, but this was never completed.

A one-act television play, it was completed by June 1964 but first broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion on 6 April 1967.

The libretto for Edipo Re was written by Giovacchino Forzano, who also wrote Il piccolo Marat for Pietro Mascagni and two of the one-act operas for Puccini's Il trittico.

Remembering Thespis, Carte reunited Gilbert and Sullivan, and the result was the one-act comic opera Trial by Jury.

In 1875, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, who was then managing the Royalty Theatre for Selina Dolaro, brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to write their second show, a one-act opera entitled Trial by Jury.

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.

In 1938, when the entire nation was preparing for war, Strauss created Friedenstag ( Peace Day ), a one-act opera set in a besieged fortress during the Thirty Years ' War.

After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 71, in which Bizet served in the National Guard, he had little success with his one-act opera Djamileh, though an orchestral suite derived from his incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L ' Arlésienne was instantly popular.

Bizet's fourth and final envoi, which occupied him for much of 1862, was a one-act opera, La guzla de l ' émir.

In 1999 a one-act musical play entitled My Lord, What a Morning: The Marian Anderson Story was produced by the Kennedy Center.

The film was written and directed by Emmett J. Flynn, from an adaptation by Jules Furthman based on a 1917 one-act melodrama by Paul Dickey and Rol Cooper Megrue.

The Devil and Billy Markham, published in Playboy in 1979, was later adapted into a solo one-act play that debuted on a double bill with Mamet's Bobby Gould in Hell ( 1989 ) with Dr. Hook vocalist Dennis Locorriere narrating.

" The prototype, a short-lived one-act play entitled Exits, was written and performed in 1977.

Whiteman became interested in featuring such an extended composition by Gershwin in the concert after he had collaborated with Gershwin in the Scandals of 1922, impressed by the original performance of the one-act opera Blue Monday, which was nevertheless a commercial failure.

His Venus auf Erden (" Venus on Earth "), a revue-like one-act play was created in 1897 at the Apollo Theater in Friedrichstraß.

It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted by Williams from his own one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.

Although the film's title card says " Tennessee Williams ' Baby Doll ", and the film is based on Williams ' one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, in his autobiography director Elia Kazan claimed that Williams was only " half-heartedly " involved in writing the screenplay, of which Kazan himself actually wrote the majority.

It was performed together with Something Unspoken, the other one-act play that it originally appeared with under the title Garden District.

It was performed at the Oxford Playhouse in August 2009, again starring Peter Bowles as Crocker-Harris, preceded by Anton Chekhov's one-act play Swansong, in which Bowles played the drunken old actor Svetlovidov.

The Wilde play ( in a German translation of Hedwig Lachmann ) was edited down to a one-act opera by Richard Strauss.

One of these one-act plays was also featured in the Hart House Drama Festival.

Wethersfield was the setting for Elizabeth George Speare's novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond, also the setting of the one-act play The Valiant by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass.