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- noun tennis, informal Two-handed
backhand . - noun A play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.
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Examples
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So the very modest charm of what was essentially a two-hander (or rather, three-hander) is spoiled by even this mild jazzing up.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar Michael Giltz 2010
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So the very modest charm of what was essentially a two-hander (or rather, three-hander) is spoiled by even this mild jazzing up.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar Michael Giltz 2010
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Age is the bass line that sounds through a conversation with Mr. Stewart over soup and bread before a preview performance of "A Life in the Theatre," David Mamet's 1977 two-hander about the shifting dynamics between a pair of actors.
Spacecraft to Stage Craft Joanne Kaufman 2010
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It's a two-hander with Hollywood and UK stage and TV actress Olivia Williams The Ghost, An Education, in which they play semi-estranged siblings who face clearing out a cottage in the forest.
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When times were hard and funding tight in the 1980s and early-90s, Willy Russell's two-hander Educating Rita was frequently seen on regional stages.
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Scarborough, the play that brought her to attention in Edinburgh in 2007, was a two-hander about Lauren, a school gym teacher who was helping one of her pupils celebrate his 16th birthday by taking him away for the weekend to a seaside boarding house.
This week's new theatre Mark Cook 2010
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This two-hander, a debate about the conflict between romantic and pragmatic love, and what happens when the passion of sex has diminished, was surprisingly inspired by the marital conflict in Noël Coward's Private Lives.
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A party would be better off with a Warrior 14 using a two-hander and picking decent feats.
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Adapted from a play by Cormac McCarthy, this tiresome two-hander pits a cynical weary-traveler professor named White (Jones), who represents culture and learning, against an evangelical reformed con named Black (Jackson), who represents faith.
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The final performance of Michael Pinchbeck's hugely entertaining two-hander, The End, a piece that is supposedly his goodbye to theatre, can be seen at the Pleasance in Edinburgh this morning.
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