How To Use Playlet In A Sentence
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The Bedroom, the title of the first playlet, is the bedroom of a well to do nobleman and his wife.
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The Sondheim revues work as well as they do because so often the songs are inherently dramatic, almost playlets in their own right.
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Sometimes they were monologues, sometimes they were playlets.
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Thirty pupils, aged eight and nine, put the reminiscences into words and music when they performed playlets and songs at Devizes Library with members of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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So if these religious playlets are essentially such crowd pleasers, why aren't they staged more often?
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There may be a pun on suite, as in a set of pieces, but not on sweet, which is hardly the taste these playlets leave in the mouth.
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He pondered the matter and saw that if the announcement in plain type on the billboards and in the program that his playlet was a travesty was not enough, he would have to tell the audience by a plain statement from the stage before his playlet began.
Writing for Vaudeville
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Wiltshire County Council has got together with two drama groups to produce five playlets which will be performed for new councillors after the county council elections in May.
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Confronted with divine works, the characters in Terrence McNally's two playlets react with decidedly profane thoughts.
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The young people involved will develop five playlets covering each of the county council's main aims.
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It surfaces in all three playlets, where fathers bring death.
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This comic playlet aspires to be nothing more than an erudite pantomime.
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The only thing Scalzi forgot in his playlet was the constant reader carping that "Famous Author's books used to be so good, I'd buy them hardcover sight unseen, but now he's just crapping out stuff by the numbers, I'll just buy used copies instead...
Making Light: "No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese."
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In performance, each sonnet is presented twice; even so, it is not easy to make the connection with the resulting playlets.
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‘It was a short story which I turned into a playlet,’ he explains gleefully.
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There are a number of terrifying playlets dotted through the book.
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This propels three playlets showing how, depending on trifles, the evening may turn out in three different ways, variously affecting four lives.
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In the chapter on the germ idea we saw that the theme or subject of a playlet is a problem that must be solved with complete satisfaction.
Writing for Vaudeville
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If you will bear in mind that a playlet is only as good as its plot, that a plot is a _story_ and that you must give to your story, as has been said, "A completeness -- a kind of universal dovetailedness, a sort of general oneness," you will have little difficulty in observing the one playlet rule that should never be broken -- Unity of action.
Writing for Vaudeville
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The soul of a playlet is the clash of the wills of the characters, from which fly the revealing flashes;
Writing for Vaudeville
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Every trivial action must be thoroughly motivated, and the finish of the playlet, instead of occurring upon the 'catabasis,' or general windup of the action, must develop the most striking feature of the playlet, so that the curtain may come down on a surprise, or at least an event toward which the entire action has been progressing.
Writing for Vaudeville
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Not all of Tennessee Williams's unpublished or forgotten playlets deserve staging.
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He knew, then, that he would have to tell the next audience and every other that the playlet is a farce,
Writing for Vaudeville
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The playlets revolved around interesting situations like that of a naive, conservative and traditional mother whose teenage daughter breaks the news of her pregnancy.
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He doesn't create elaborate conceits or mini - playlets, either.
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Each 'playlet' has six parts, ranging from easy to hard.
Times, Sunday Times
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These examples I have cited to demonstrate that the return from the playlet is a most variable quantity.
Writing for Vaudeville
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The playlet is a very definite thing -- and yet it is difficult to define.
Writing for Vaudeville
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The Villain Still Pursued Her," tells as plainly as a whole paragraph could that the playlet is a travesty, making fun of the old blood-and-thunder melodrama.
Writing for Vaudeville
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If your playlet is a comedy, make it a comedy throughout; it if is a deeply human story, let it end as it began; [1] if you are writing a straight drama or a melodrama, keep your playlet straight drama or melodrama all the way through.
Writing for Vaudeville
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More than 300 children, aged between four and seven, participated in different items including songs, nursery rhymes, playlets, story telling and fancy dress competition.
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A playlet proceeds, with members of your tour party playing the judge, witnesses and accused.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each of the six separate playlets showcased a man-woman relationship, pinpointing toe-curling aspects of British life across the spectrum and behind the net curtains.
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In Korea, Lloyd never thought the playlet could be a hit record, but it soon became a sensation, at one point selling nearly 200,000 copies a day -- and rapidly shot to #1 on the pop charts.
Jim Crow
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Wilson doesn't force the show into a succession of playlets, but he gives the dramatic potential of each song a free run.
