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Plays in One Act

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This book is handy if you're a playwright looking for good names to imitate. It's handy if you're examining styles popular in short plays (many of them ten minutes or less). It's a neato-jet piece of gear if you're learning the language and jargon of the playwrighting scene.

This book is useless if you're a director looking to stage a one-act. The plays are too irregular, and many are too short unless you're running an evening of ten-minute plays. Some are radio plays, which are useless on stage. Some are cuttings or extended monologues. There is no unifying theme through the book, so it's hit-or-miss if what you find will even match any theme you may be looking for.

If you know this going in, the book can be useful to you. Many people like it. I found it a drag.

My Book Club has existed since 1928, but it is called the Book and Play Club. In other words, we are heavily into drama as well as books. This wonderful anthology will serve us well as several times during the club year we like to do readings, monologues, or even perform short plays... perhaps one of our "originals" will make it into the next collection by the editor!

My Book Club has existed since 1928 but we are really a Book and Play Club. Each year we try to include drama in the form of monologues, one-act plays, readings. This collection will help immeasureably. Maybe one of our "originals" will appear in the next collection by this editor!