A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. In recent years,^[when?] the 10-minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writing competitions. The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of drama: in ancient Greece, Cyclops, a satyr play by Euripides, is an early example.^[1]

One-act plays by major dramatists

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  Edward Albee – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002)


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  Samuel Beckett – Krapp's Last Tape (1958)


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  Anton Chekhov – A Marriage Proposal (1890)


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  Israel Horovitz – Line (1974)


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  Eugène Ionesco – The Bald Soprano (1950)


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  Arthur Miller – A Memory of Two Mondays (1955)


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  August Strindberg – Pariah (1889), Motherly Love (1892), and The First Warning (1892)


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  Thornton Wilder – The Long Christmas Dinner (1931)


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  Cormac McCarthy – The Sunset Limited (2006)

See also

• List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams


• Monodrama

References

Sources

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External links

• One Act Play Depot

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