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Wilder has written of his growing conviction that "the theater is the greatest of the arts." Over the years he has turned put a sizeable number of plays, running from three minutes to three hours. His position as a dramatist, however, rests largely on three full-evening works: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth (a revival of which will open at the Colonial Theater in Boston on August 51, and The Matchmaker. A small number, to be sure: but Chekhov's rightly elevated rank as a dramatist tests on only four plays, while Webster, Wycherly, Sheridan, Beaumarchais, Biichner...
...George Pierce Baker, professor of English and class of 1888, left Harvard after 36 years of trying to establish a drama department here, 36 years of frustrated efforts to win recognition for drama as a respectable field of study for ladies and gentlemen. As a director, producer, dramatist and playwright he struggled to bring Harvard into the forefront of the revitalized interest in theater which was developing during the first decades of this century. Baker left to found the Yale Drama School when Yale secured funds for the construction of a new theater and the endowment of a drama school...
...seems ironic that Ireland should have given hostile England a series of witty literary geniuses while its gift to friendly America was Eugene O'Neill. Distrusting both people and words, O'Neill was an unlikely dramatist whose literal mind made him work out everything for himself. In his earlier plays he achieved repetitiveness, instead of the cumulative force of the late ones. A three-hour trifle in the O'Neill canon, Ah, Wilderness! was written in 1933. A comedy, it describes how, on July 4, 1906, 17-year-old Dick Miller (Richard Backus) began to grow...
...Turner's moral philosophy was a matter of passion and visual expression, not of strict archaeology and attention to sources . . . The fumes of history filled his brain, not its dry facts." When the fumes wove in harmony with the demands of visual truth, Turner became an epic dramatist-as Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus shows, with that sublime apparition of a galleon, canvas flapping and looping, escorted by Nereids through a lake of fire and vapor, under the dimly discernible, looming profile of the giant...
...theater is to reassess the works of our playwrights a decade or two after their original productions. As part of its 20th season, the American Shakespeare Theater is fulfilling this function by turning for the first time in its history to a play by a living American dramatist...