Word: dramatistic
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...know something of the work of French dramatist Jean Genet, whose plays are usually associated with Antonin Artaud’s theater of cruelty, and of the style of director Jess R. Burkle ’06, whose spring production, “Knock,” was lauded for its dark comedy. However, I wasn’t prepared for the abject violence of this new script, nor the calculation with which Burkle’s cast and crew approached it. It never lifted my spirits, but its intelligence and precision were overwhelming...
...Faith Healer The one-person show is, I confess, not my favorite form of theater, and this play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel is essentially four of them, delivered by three different characters who never interact onstage: an itinerant faith healer (who, being the title character, gets to talk twice), his wife and his manager. The actors ? Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid ? are wonderful, but this is one very long slog, with whatever dramatic momentum is generated dissipated by a climax of rather annoying obliqueness. This is the sort of self-conscious showcase for ?writing? and ?acting? that...
...they don’t ‘get’ constitutional democracy,” Kushner said.Despite their different stances on Miller, Brustein was sweeping in his praise of Kushner. “After the death of Arthur Miller, there’s no question who the leading dramatist in America is at the present,” Brustein said, referring to Kushner...
Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06 spent this past summer living with the 19th century Irish dramatist John Millington Synge. He’s long dead, to be sure, but Spillane-Hinks did everything she could to bring him back to life as the sole occupant of his small island hut and the curator of the museum now housed there. Spillane-Hinks spent her time lighting the hearth and leading tours, immersing herself in the Irish culture she’d been studying at Harvard since her sophomore year. Her name, to reiterate, is Aoife. Pronounced...
...Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson’s belief in educative comedy, the program states the intention of the play is to “better humankind by allowing people to see their own follies through the sugared depiction of comedy.” Co-directors Sean R. Fredricks ’07 and Simon N. Nicholas ’07 succeed admirably in drawing the audience into the play. In an innovative opening scene, the absent master of the house lures a giggling audience member on stage by tickling her with a flamboyant white feather, and then commences to introduce...