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 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