Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience: "Never was a thin plot so complicated." When informed in Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman that the alphabet is divided into vowels and consonants, he rejoined: "That's only fair." A master of low comedy, Bobby brought craftsmanship to roles great and small. His favorite dramatist: Shakespeare, because "the clowns never get killed...
...humming through a talky first act, but soon caught their attention with enough incest, adultery, miscegenation and fornication to keep a three-toed sloth awake for a month. Starring Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth and Jason Robards Jr.., it is the first original play in nine years by Dramatist Hellman (The Little Foxes, The Children's Hour). Wrote the Boston Record's Elliot Norton: "She has written wisely, often wittily, and her point of view is provocative. But the basic story seemed just a little forced...