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...METEOR, by Switzerland's metaphysical mystery master, Friedrich Duerrenmatt (The Visit). Paul Rogers (The Homecoming) stars. A dead playwright comes back to life and destroys all he touches...
...farce, Thieves' Carnival, and a new play, Harpers Ferry, by Barrie Stavis will be in repertory at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater until Oct. 27. The House of Atreus, adapted by John Lewin from Aeschylus' Oresteia, will be added to the playbill on July 21; Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Visit debuts on Sept...
CENTER THEATER GROUP, Los Angeles, Calif. The Sorrows of Frederick, a new play about Frederick the Great of Prussia by Romulus Linney, will be performed at the Mark Taper Forum until Aug. 6, with Fritz Weaver in the title role. From Aug. 25 until Oct. 8, Duerrenmatt's The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi will be presented...
SEATTLE. A Contemporary Theater. A Thurber Carnival, by James Thurber, Aug. 2-15; Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Physicists, Aug. 16-29; Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace, Aug. 30-Sept. 11; Harold Pinter's The Collection and The Room, Sept...
This is what Duerrenmatt wants. He has given up on the idea of teaching his audience directly through the action; he wants to give them the chance to learn. "Drama can dupe the spectator into exposing himself to reality, but cannot compel him to withstand it or even to master it," he wrote in his notes to this play...