Word: halfmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This season, off-Broadway has been particularly plagued by one-halfmanship, and its strongest impact has been the feeling that an off-Broadway evening is far from wasted yet less than richly satisfying...
...Playwright as Label. The one-halfmanship of buying a playwright's brand name on a piece of inferior work is illustrated by Jean Genet's The Maids. Two maids (Lee Grant and Kathleen Widdoes) dress up in their mistress' finery and plot her murder by poisoning her tea. The mistress (Eunice Anderson) avoids drinking the tea. One maid commits suicide, and the other expects to hang. For Genet, the theater is an instrument of the outcast's fantasized revenge: his characters ritually murder the authority they hate and envy by donning the vestments of the powers...
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