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Vocabulary
What does the four one-act mean here?
At his debut as author with the four one-act farces, linked under the umbrella title Thieves, Mannequins and nude women, he told an interviewer: 'I want to rehabilitate farce.'
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" A one-act play is a play that takes place, from beginning to end, in a single act. A farce is a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically includes crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. Four one-act farces means four separate one-act farces.
- " A one-act play is a play that takes place, from beginning to end, in a single act.
- A farce is a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically includes crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
- Four one-act farces means four separate one-act farces.
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It's a theatrical term and comes from "one-act play."
A one-act play is a play that takes place, from beginning to end, in a single act.
A farce is a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically includes crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
Four one-act farces means four separate one-act farces.
A one-act play is a play that takes place, from beginning to end, in a single act.
A farce is a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically includes crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
Four one-act farces means four separate one-act farces.
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