Word: dramatist
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...stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss. Where Chekhov's people bestir themselves too little or too late, Turgenev's seem overready; just because the landscape is flat or the drawing room tedious, they grasp at situations and embroider them, they self-centeredly turn dramatist themselves. But they are often worldly enough to be on to what they are doing...
...Crow is largely a dress parade of pet peeves, mostly in the form of journalistic pieces on the theater, actors, critics, fellow playwrights and, Lord have mercy on their souls, the benighted detractors of Sean O'Casey. What raises this book above its crotchets is the old (76) dramatist's unslaked love of life and the lilt of his harpsprung prose...
...self-exiled bard, "these critics do not injure O'Casey, but they disgrace Ireland." He feels he is in good company, for Shakespeare too seems to him to be disgraced in his homeland ("The Old Vic is only a hole-and-corner existence for England's greatest dramatist...
Shakespeare's powers as a dramatist are, however, less apparent in the production. The fault here is in part due to the play itself, since Richard II lacks a great deal of motion and excitement. Director Glenn Goldburg does not quite manage to surmount this shortcoming. His blocking takes good advantage of the arena stage, but it tends to be rather static, especially in the long first act. Nevertheless, his staging is always visually interesting, and it is questionable whether any director can inject motion into a play that often does not move...
...once all-comprehensive and highly sensitive. It is simultaneously a drama of man against fate, man against man, and man against himself, skillfully woven into story. Yet the perceptive author is never lost in the grandiose scheme. The eye for delineation of habit and idiosyncrasy combine with a dramatist's craftsmanship to engross the reader...