One act Full length A previous editor contended that a one act play could not be full length This is a confusion of the two very different terms Being presented in one act only means that the play has no internal act breaks and is presented without an intermission A one act play could be a shorter work and often is but in the case of Vogel s play this is not the case Christmas Ride is also a full length work running about 1 40 Christmas Ride is thus both full length AND one act much like say Irwin Shaw s Bury the Dead another elegiac one act full length play Preserving this distinction is important