Word: dramatistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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...
...ever been written. As every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega about...
...sponsors will rush to pay for them. To prove that they are at least surveying the road to this promised land, the networks every now and then hire a well-known litterateur to act as intellectual trailblazer. Three years ago, NBC joyfully announced the hiring of Pulitzer Prizewinning Dramatist Robert Sherwood. Nothing much came of it. Last week CBS hired another Pulitzer Prizewinner, Dramatist Sidney (Men in White, Detective Story) Kingsley, to be its resident cultural genius...