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...case at a Canadian theater festival named in his honor. The Shaw Festival will stage eight plays from March 31 through Nov. 11 in its three theaters in Niagara-on-the-Lake, on the Ontario peninsula, just 20 miles from the falls. Two are by G.B.S.--The Doctor's Dilemma and The Apple Cart--and the rest are by Luigi Pirandello, J.B. Priestley, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde. Highlights of the repertory season this year include adaptations of Lord of the Flies, the 1954 best seller by William Golding, and Virginia Woolf's A Room...
...order to provide more opportunities, the Student Playwrights Project first needed to take into account some of the problems that student writers face. Time constraints during this early part of the season mean that many writers cannot pull together full scale productions of their plays. In answer to this dilemma, the Student Playwrights Project focuses more on the scripts themselves, putting together staged readings of the plays as opposed to full productions. "Readings are perfect, because they merely require a bit of rehearsal and minimum technical work," McClelland explains. "The advantages of staged readings are twofold: they allow the writer...
...dilemma they reach--whether to support an aged chain or an expanding corporation--touches a problem modern conservatives face frequently in the real world: Given that one should, generally speaking, preserve traditions, how long must something be around to qualify as a tradition? Jurists who stand by the original understanding of the constitution face the same difficulty when deciding precisely when stare decisis starts to apply. Most have recourse to judicial prudence: When a decision has become so embedded in everyday life that overturning it would cause chaos, the decision should stand, no matter how poor the ruling...
...jokes aside, the dilemma of dozing lecture halls does concern those at the lectern...
...sparring is tax cuts. Clinton proposed $150 billion over 10 years, including $45 billion to reduce the marriage penalty. The GOP has scaled back last year's failed $780 billion tax cut proposal, but still wants a considerably larger cut than Clinton proposed. The Republicans are facing an ugly dilemma: If they offer too large a cut, they look imprudent next to Clinton's anti-debt stance, but if they offer too small a package, they make the trillion-dollar cut favored by GOP presidential front-runner George W. Bush look completely frivolous. Let the horse trading begin...