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...When dramatist and poet Ben Jonson published his complete works in the early days of the 17th century, he caused quite a stir in Jacobean high society. It's not that his writing was particularly scandalous. The problem, it seems, lay in the fact that he included both his plays and his poems in the same book. And why was that so surprising? He waspublishing his complete works, after all. But in Jonson's day the emphasis would be on the word works and not on the word complete. It might seem like a silly semantic quarrel today...
...world has gone mad and we are all of it. What's worse is we made it that way. Or at least, that's the way of the world according to the master Swedish dramatist, August Strindberg. In truly modernist fashion, the world of August Strindberg's experimental masterpiece, Miss Julie, now playing with the Coyote Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, is a world where people search to create their own destinies out of the shards of the civilization left behind and the pitiful results of past human choices. In the preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg claims...
Edward Eaton and Shawn Elinoff's recent production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, also directed by Eaton and produced through special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services, did a magnificent job of creating the ambiance of a bygone time and place. As the play was produced in an elegant Beacon Hill townhouse, audience and cast mingled in a way that supported the illusion that what was going to happen on stage was happening in the here and now. Due to the very nature of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, environmentalist theater worked perfectly...
...struggle to retain their humanity. Eventually, only Berenger, a lackluster drunkard wrapped in a haze of brandy and paranoia is left to hopelessly affirm his own humanity as everyone around him joins the unstoppable herd of rhinoceroses. The play, which signaled at turning point in the career of the dramatist Eugene Ionesco, is a startling commentary on the rise of fascism and on mass hysteria...
...ABOUT NIGHTINGALES Looking back, Tennessee Williams probably found his early, unproduced play crude and lacking in poetry. Both are true. But Trevor Nunn's intense production (which had its U.S. debut at Houston's Alley Theatre) also shows off the raw power of a dramatist on the verge of greatness...