Playlets

Freely adapting and updating scripts once staged at London's Grand Guignol, an institution modeled on the Paris venue, writer Shawn Northrip has knit three playlets and four mimed interludes into a production that is heavier on sex than gore. ❋ Celia Wren (2010)

Written by Simon Stephens – whose Punk Rock was a big success at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester as well as the Lyric Hammersmith – it consists of a trio of two-handed playlets, each focusing on a different couple on the edges of Heathrow airport and exploring relationships, the transience of humanity, and the power of nature to uplift or destroy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the producers themselves know it isn't: some of the 20 playlets, though all are published in the text, are omitted altogether, others only given in part, or chopped up and distributed here and there in the evening. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

Naked Stage claims the three playlets have seldom been performed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their Double Down Hearts sketch show bagged them an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination in 2008, and it was fantastic entertainment, with bizarre playlets, hilariously awkward audience interaction and top-drawer gags. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The most winning are the playlets that approach the events obliquely. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

Essentially, this is a series of snippets of overheard conversations that work like tiny playlets and come together like a jigsaw puzzle to create a fascinating patchwork picture of 21st-century life in Britain. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The heavy-handed attempt at dramatic irony in the flimsy connection between the playlets brought a maudlin resonance to this unconvincing encounter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indeed, I have listened to it so many times already that despite these playlets being brief and purely instructional I have come to harbour strange ideas about their characters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All the "Klecksography" playlets were written last week by six area writers - Patrick Bussink, James Hesla, Jason Linkins, Augie Praley, Christin Siems and Seamus Sullivan - and workshopped Dec. 12. ❋ Jane Horwitz (2010)

Staged by London ' s Tricycle Theatre, famed for its highly political and culturally diverse plays, " The Great Game " presents 12 short playlets spanning the years 1842-2010, six of which are helmed by British-Sri Lankan director Indhu Rubasingham. ❋ Vibhuti Patel (2010)

A dozen dramatists have contributed playlets to the production from London's Tricycle Theatre, which is presented in three installments, a separate one each night (and all presented on weekend days) with each part focusing on a different historical period -- and foreign invader. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We could do without, for example, some of the brief interludes between playlets, in which verbatim remarks are recited by actors impersonating government functionaries and military leaders and figures like Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Amateur actors, most of them writers he knew, put on playlets about a murder. ❋ Ed Gorman (2009)

"The Long Island – bred [Hal] Hartley is trying to shake up his aesthetic - shake it up without forsaking his gift for deadpan comedy and loopy little playlets in which misfits reach out clumsily from their solipsistic bubbles," writes David Edelstein in New York. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When her daughter could find no suitable skits to put on with friends, Alexander wrote some, remembering her own imaginative youthful playlets, and Scholastic published Small Plays for You and A Friend in 1973. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His most famous credit as a writer was of course the musical Company, which he didn't intend as a musical at all; he wrote it as a bunch of unconnected playlets about marriage, at a time when there were a number of successful short-play collections running on Broadway. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2008)

Various groups were engaging in assorted games, and over in one corner a well-known troupe of court thespians were performing one of their most beloved playlets, a retelling of a long-ago confrontation between one of the oldest and greatest of the Ocular, Polyphemus, and a pissant little Mort named Oolissus. ❋ David_Peter (2007)

“You know last month I was trying to teach my entrepreneurship students about [Bootstrap Capital] (Self-capitalization) and I wasn’t sure that I was really getting through to them all. So I got a few students together and we wrote, acted and filmed five playlets on the subject. We put each playlet up on YouTube and, [lo and behold], when we showed them in class this week, there were quite a few ‘ah ha’ moments amongst the students. It seems that video and play acting [real life situations] got the message through in a way that really clicked.” ❋ Prof Bruce (2010)