Word: berney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accounts, about "a witch who wanted to be human and the gal he witched who weren't true." But, as the good Lord says, those who know not of what they speak should shut the hell up. Who, after all, are these men, Howard Richardson and William Berney, who pervert morality onto a framework that cannot stand its weight? It's an exhausted tale of witches and lovers and hillbillies, a sinnin' and a rollin' in the hay and a borin' you to tears. And you the congregation knows what will happen and have no reason to care...
Somewhere in this melange of mysticism and morality lurks some talent. But the actors don't have a prayer in the hands of Richardson and Berney. As the midwife says to the ailing sinner, Barbara Allen, lying on the bed after bearing her witch-child, "It ain't yer fault. It were the fruit of yer husband. There weren't nothing you could...
Dark of the Moon, by Howard Richardson and William Berney, purports to be a folk drama about Tennessean witches. This witch boy wants to be a real boy but the girl he's in love with breaks her supernatural contract and he has to go back to witchery. Word is that she, on the other hand, got a job taking dictation at the White House, Tonight till Saturday, 8 p.m. in the Leverett Old Library...
Dark of the Moon is by two nice gentlemen named Howard Richardson and William Berney. It takes place in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Its story concerns a witch boy who turns human to marry a girl named Barbara Allen. At the end, as the McGraw Encyclopedia of World Drama eloquently puts it, "once again a witch, John looks without recognition at the body of the girl he once loved." Well, the course of true love never did run smooth. This weekend and next in the Leverett Old Library...
...Biblical David had always intrigued him, and when Schwartz was at the University of Minnesota as playwright-in-residence the idea took form: "We were sitting around when a friend of mine who was acid-tripping went into a wild impersonation of John Witchboy, the character in Richardson and Berney's Dark of the Moon. Like David, he was the sort of intense and spiritual person who, in talking to you, would look right into your eyes and make you feel like you were the only person who understood him, who he could relate to. Then he would turn, completely...