one-act

Archer plays the lead in a ponderous but thoughtful one-act play penned by her husband, Terry Jastrow.

In addition to his longer plays, Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of one-act plays, short stories, and novels.

Thus his one-act opera "Milton," dedicated to Empress Josephine, may be regarded as the first of his truly original works.

He did so in Trial by Jury, a very amusing one-act piece, suggested in part by his joyous reminiscences of Liverpool.

"Here's a new 'situation' for a one-act farce," he said, gloomily, to his next patient when Bibbs had gone.

Then four one-act plays were selected from among some hundreds poured forth by village genius to its rehabilitated god.

But a flirtation, after all, unless in a one-act comedy, is not entertaining to the mere looker-on; and oh!