Word: comediettina
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Village Wooing, "A comediettina for two voices" in three "conversations," lasts less than an hour, has two characters, A and Z. A is a misanthropic author who meets Z, a country telephone operator and general store salesgirl, on a world cruise. Against his will, by reason of her commonsense and persistence, she marries him when they are later thrown together in her village store. With no vestige of a Cause at stake, Playwright Shaw has contented himself with assembling snatches of agreeable small talk. A snatch not so agreeable...
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