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...wrote novels, was influenced in his early years less by theater than by the triple bills of American B-movies that he would spend long afternoons watching. Even today he seems aloof from most of his British playwriting peers; he's friends with few of them, and the only dramatist with whom he professes a close affinity (personal and professional) is Harold Pinter, who directed him in an early production of The Birthday Party. "I got fascinated by his use of dialogue, his use of words, the structure of sentences," Ayckbourn says. "You can see even now what's actually...
...follows what happens right after a well-known story, “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place,” which will be presented in the Agassiz Theatre only a few blocks away, looks at what happened right before another tale. Written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place” takes place the day before the epic Trojan War breaks out between the Trojans and the Greek Mycenaeans. It follows prince Hector’s futile attempts to peacefully end the war. “You?...
...became the famed research institution in Cambridge. “My hope is for the students to find in John Harvard a role model, the opportunity to be altruistic, and most importantly, to give,” Van Devere said. A dearth of biographical information about Harvard has left dramatists like Van Devere with a unique opportunity. There have been few attempts to dramatize the life of this Puritan reverend in the last 400 years, and Van Devere took this opportunity to add what he called his “personal sense of human touch” to Harvard?...
Director Robert Scanlan emphasized the un-theatricality of “Beckett at 100” with this line in his introduction to the show. As Scanlan explained, Irish dramatist Samuel Beckett wrote the three plays, which made up the New College Theatre’s most recent offering, independently and intended for them to be produced through different media. “Words and Music” and “Cascando” were originally for the radio and “...but the clouds...” for television...
...created indelible allegories of postwar man adrift without God. He was the movies' great dramatist of strong, tortured women and the finest director of actresses. More than any other filmmaker, he raised the status of movies to an art form equal to novels and plays. Yet when Ingmar Bergman died at 89, the popular description of him was, Woody Allen's favorite director...