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  • 1.  short one-act to pair with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound

    Posted 08-23-2018 23:50
    If we did Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound (60 minutes), I'd like to do a 30-45 minute one-act along with it. What might pair well? Something hilarious and spoofy!

    Thanks!
    Arden


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    Arden Thomas
    Sequoyah High School
    Pasadena CA
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  • 2.  RE: short one-act to pair with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound

    Posted 08-24-2018 05:09
    Look at Stoppard's "Fifteen Minute Hamlet." 




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  • 3.  RE: short one-act to pair with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound

    Posted 08-24-2018 10:48

    I would second "Fifteen Minute Hamlet" if you are looking for something very short.

    I'll be doing "The Real Inspector Hound" this winter and pairing it with Peter Shaffer's "Black Comedy."  These shows partner nicely together in that they are highly physical farces, both from the same era, both by master British playwrights and both have a single set and, should you chose to double cast them, both have a cast of 5 men and 3 women! (You could actually use the same 8 actors in both shows if you wanted.)  "Black Comedy" is not short however. It's a long one-act like Inspector Hound (both shows run about an hour).  That doesn't mean they can't work together (I'm not the first person who has paired them up) but it makes for a somewhat longer evening. 



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    John Monteverde
    Drama Teacher
    Pittsfield High School
    Pittsfield, MA
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  • 4.  RE: short one-act to pair with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound

    Posted 08-24-2018 13:16
    Years ago we paired it with "Actor's Nightmare" by Christopher Durang and used George Spelvin's body as the body on stage at the beginning of Real Inspector Hound as we shifted into it.  I thought it added another level of "what the what?"

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    [William] [Myatt] [Director of Theatre]

    [Pleasant Valley High School]

    [myattw@pleasval.k12.ia.us][563-332-5151][Bettendorf][IA][USA]
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  • 5.  RE: short one-act to pair with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound

    Posted 08-24-2018 15:45
    I think it is sometimes paired with Black Comedy, by Peter Shaffer.



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  • 6.  RE: short one-act to pair with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound

    Posted 08-25-2018 06:22
    Try looking at Murder by Indecision. One of my favorite one-act plays and I've always thought I'd pair it with Hound if I ever did Hound.  Murder by Indecision

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    Lynda Gibson
    Director
    Troupe 2829
    Flushing High School
    Junior Troupe 88305
    Flushing Middle School
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