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Action and adventure plays


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    • Action and adventure plays
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    • Action-adventure plays
    • Action and adventure drama
    • Action plays
    • Adventure plays
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    • found: Work cat.: Peter Pan Company (Great Britain). Peter Pan, 2016(a fantasy and adventure play)
    • found: 2006471337: Mast, E. J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit : an adventure play, ©1996.
    • found: Kasdan, Lawrence. Raiders of the lost ark, 1979(screenplay for an action and adventure film)
    • found: Chorpenning, C.B. Three adventure plays, 1972.
    • found: Six adventure plays, 1987.
    • found: Dracula, and other plays of adventure and suspense, ©1986(contents: The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The gold bug / Edward Pomerantz, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe -- The lonely one / Ray Bradbury -- Captains courageous / John Gay, based on the story by Rudyard Kipling -- The rose-crystal bell / Robert Arthur -- Dracula, a new version / John Mattera, based on the novel by Bram Stoker)
    • found: Morgan, Malcolm. Treasure Island : an adventure in three acts, 1954:t.p. (adapted from R.L. Stevenson's novel)
    • found: Rowland, D. "Baskerville" bucks theatre trend with action-adventure, via Huffington post blog, 02/06/2017, viewed on Jan. 10, 2018("Baskerville," at the Allen Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square, is a rarity in modern theater: an action-adventure play. Once a staple of staged productions over the centuries, live action murder and mayhem largely disappeared as movies and their realistic special effects eclipsed stagecraft in the 20th century)
    • found: Off The Wall Plays website, Jan. 10, 2018:Return to Vardia (Return to Vardia - three act adventure play for large cast. Author: Keith Passmore. Genre: Adventure. Tag: full length adventure scripts) Grace will lead me home (Grace will lead me home - heart warming adventure play for teens. Author: Alexia Tiches. Genre: Adventure, teen drama. Type: Two-act adventure play for teens. Tag: adventure plays)
    • found: 2015024047: Guillain, C. Writing and staging adventure plays, 2016.
    • notfound: The Methuen drama dictionary of the theatre, 2011;The new Penguin dictionary of the theatre, 2001
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    • 2018-01-09: new
    • 2018-04-16: revised
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