Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What about major contemporary British playwrights, such as Storey or Osborne? "We don't want to do them--for stylistic reasons. Lots of them tend to write for a 'naturalistic' theater. I think they write in a style where what is seen on stage has to convince the audience that it's the real thing. But the only reality is the actor on the stage and you're watching. Our company is beautiful, eccentric, talented, and the fun is using and stretching the limitations." A recent production of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real, for example, was done in drag, with...
...week before the opening, the 11 actors in the production split into two groups and began to scream Italian gibberish and profanity at each other, five actors onstage, and six at the top of the Loeb auditorium. "All right," says Havergal in a beautiful, melodious British accent that sounds just like every British accent ought to sound, "Now choose some lines of yours in the play, and let's hear you deliver them in the same tone to each other." While the five actors onstage proceed to do so, Havergal huddles with his group at the top and begins whispering...
Cascorach, Gemini and Willie Mahon--Music of Ireland and British Isles, Joy of Movement Center...
...performers, but it is difficult to be charitable while they are stabbing Shakespeare to death. George Rose is comfortable in Caesar's tunic, yet when he dies in the Forum, the event carries no more dramatic gravity than if Robert Morley were to be silenced midway in a British Airways commercial...
...fought her family and her teachers to go to Barnard, and later did post-graduate work at Syracuse University. Four years ago, she married a British anthropologist. The idea for Final Payments came from the old neighborhood. "I thought of women of my mother's generation who led sacrificed lives for someone in their family. There is a terrible human need when the body conks out, but no one in my generation gives over his life. I began by wondering what would happen." After the book was turned down by a couple of publishers, Gordon took it around...