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playlet

[ UK /plˈe‍ɪlət/ ]
NOUN
  1. a short play

How To Use playlet In A Sentence

  • The playlet is a very definite thing -- and yet it is difficult to define. Writing for Vaudeville
  • The soul of a playlet is the clash of the wills of the characters, from which fly the revealing flashes; Writing for Vaudeville
  • 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
  • Not all of Tennessee Williams's unpublished or forgotten playlets deserve staging.
  • He knew, then, that he would have to tell the next audience and every other that the playlet is a farce, Writing for Vaudeville
  • The playlets revolved around interesting situations like that of a naive, conservative and traditional mother whose teenage daughter breaks the news of her pregnancy.
  • He doesn't create elaborate conceits or mini - playlets, either.
  • Each 'playlet' has six parts, ranging from easy to hard. Times, Sunday Times
  • These examples I have cited to demonstrate that the return from the playlet is a most variable quantity. Writing for Vaudeville
  • 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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