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MOZART THE DRAMATIST by Brigid Brophy. 328 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World...
...achieve it, director Ben Shaktman and his colleagues turned to Eugene O'Neill, our greatest American dramatist, and revived his simple but powerful psychological study of a Negro's fear and fall from power, The Emperor Jones--but with a difference. The usual scenery and iterated tom-tom beatings have been replaced by a dozen ballet dancers and and extended orchestral score. The 1920 play was "experimental" to begin with, and O'Neill would certainly have approved the result of this further experimentation...
Baby Want a Kiss is a sort of ventriloquiz, a chance to guess whose playwriting voice is being thrown onstage. Dramatist James Costigan can mimic the voices of Edward Albee, lonesco and the Theater of the Absurd, Pirandello and even James Thurber, but except for a few sallies of wit and whimsy, he cannot speak for himself...
...style of a great actor, a dramatist of the life of the mind, and it belonged to Miller and few others. He was the Ahab of academics...
Sayre denied that there is any necessary connection between good teaching and publishing. To expect one man to inspire his students, be an analyst, a dramatist and a scholar all at once breeds only mediocrity, he maintained...