Word: dramatistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpublished plays of the late Eugene O'Neill will eventually provide a deeper understanding of the recluse dramatist's personal and family problems, according to Brooks Atkinson '17, drama critic for the New York Times, and Harry Leo Kozol '27, clinical associate in Neurology, two of O'Neill's few close lifetime friends...
Atkinson, who terms O'Neill "America's greatest dramatist," first became acquainted with the playwright in 1920 and remained a lifelong friend. "The unpublished manuscript I know of," Atkinson explained, "is 'A Touch of the Poet', which is probably locked up in the Random House vault...
...Angeles Sir: . . . The article . . . was written with organ-toned whimsy ... I resent . . . being told that Anna Christie is one of Eugene O'Neill's "worst" plays, and I resent being told that O'Neill ranks just below Shaw and O'Casey as a 20th century dramatist ... I am not privy to your sources . . . but I am of the opinion that neither you nor anyone else is in a position just yet to say which of Eugene O'Neill's plays are the "worst...
...Baker put it, the Workshop was "not in the usual sense a theater, but rather a working place for the young dramatist, a place in which he has the opportunity to see the play adequately acted before a sympathetic and critical audience." This audience was not the usual crowd which drifts in from the streets. Admission was by in vitiation only and was restricted to "people believed to be deeply interested in such experimentation as the Workshop offers." But more than interest was required of the audience. Within three days after the production the spectator was expected to turn amateur...
Died. Henry Bernstein, 77. hot-tempered French dramatist (he fought twelve duels), best-known for his violently pessimistic plays dealing with thwarted passion (Le Secret, Mélo, Espoir): after a brain tumor operation; in Paris...