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Second, desk-scribblers can be honest and anonvmous at the same time. While the candid outbursts that frequently appear in graffiti must be repressed in polite company, inhibitions can burst free onto a clean tabletop. A cruel jibe, a private fear, or a happy confession of love finds an appreciative...
Until now. Shepard, 42, last week unveiled A Lie of the Mind, the newest, longest (3 hours 45 minutes) and best of his 40-odd plays. Staged off-Broadway by the playwright, Lie superficially resembles yet another Shepardian slice of life among borderline psychotics of the underclass. It opens with...
Michael Walker's confession, read in court, suggested that John Walker was not always so concerned for his son's welfare. "My dad told me I could make money if I would take classified material from my workplace and give it to him," Michael said. "I was shocked and afraid...
In the best plays of Eugene O'Neill and John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, wherever anger scalds and language blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young...
Even this ideological struggle, however, soon collapses into a predictable triangle: the fiercely-independent June, her caring but impotent lover, and jealous abusive ex-husband. One can't help feeling disappointed when June interrupts the love-making scene with the excuse-confession that her husband used to beat her. For...