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词汇 one-woman show
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Definition of one-woman show in English:

one-woman show

noun
  • 1A show performed by one woman only.

    I went to see her on stage in her one-woman show
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The most recent play to surprise me was a one-woman show called Nine Parts of Desire.
    • Next year I'm doing a one-woman show on Broadway.
    • I want to tour the world with my one-woman show.
    • They just love musical-comedy personalities and they usually come to one-woman shows.
    • She is an actor-turned writer in a one-woman show.
    • She began creating her own vehicles: two one-woman shows that can be adapted to full-scale theaters or intimate nightclubs.
    • On Thursday night I went to see Sarah Silverman's one-woman show, Jesus is Magic.
    • We learned today Somers is starring in a one-woman show, called "The Blond in the Thunderbird."
    • Landau initially wrote the play as a one-woman show, as part of her theatre degree at York University.
    • Now Kate Mulgrew portrays her in Matthew Lombardo's Tea at Five, an almost two-hour one-woman show.
    1. 1.1 An exhibition of the work of one female artist.
      she had a one-woman show at the new Tate St Ives
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I managed to create 60 paintings for my first one-woman show.
      • She'd also found a gallery to host a one-woman show of her work.
      • She is about ready to show the paintings she has been working on during that time at a one-woman show in New York.
      • He gave O'Keeffe her first one-woman show in 1917.
      • Several one-woman shows at galleries nationwide have garnered her critical acclaim.
      • She always kept up her own work as an artist, and from the 1960s she had numerous one-woman shows.
      • Initially she worked in conventional media in painting and sculpture, but from 1960 (the year of her first one-woman show at the Galerie Kordegarda, Warsaw) she concentrated on textiles.
      • She had a one-woman show at the governor's mansion for the month of July.
      • Her first one-woman show was in 1915 and after the First World War she achieved critical and financial success.
      • Her first one-woman show, at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, in 1945, included drawings, prints, and wood sculpture.
    2. 1.2 A situation dominated by or reliant on one woman.
      the second set became a one-woman show as the 22-year-old outplayed her opponent
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was just a one-woman show trying to sell my dresses to boutiques.
      • The business would have been a one-woman show.
      • The project is a one-woman show, created entirely by Nina Paley, a New York-based cartoonist.
      • At the very least, Warnaco no longer looks like a one-woman show.
      • It seems to be burgeoning from a one-woman show to a more business-like entity.
      • Her volunteer work is a one-woman show, based in a study in her carpeted attic.
      • She not only builds relationships with people, she is a one-woman show!
      • It is surely time to examine the purpose of Scottish Financial Enterprise, an organisation that is barely more than a one-woman show without an act.
      • Rose started the business as a one-woman show in Lismore, and her programs proved so popular she soon had nine franchise outlets across NSW.
      • I am a one-woman show, after all.
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