Word: highwayman
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...Nursery by Julia Jarcho’03-’04, a play hailed in The New York Times as “Terrific stuff, stunning from a teenage writer.” Jarcho slides into the director’s chair as well for her latest production, The Highwayman, which will open today in the Adams Kronauer Space. The Highwayman is inspired by the Alfred Noyes poem of the same name published in 1907. (Jarcho notes that her play is inspired by, not adapted from, the poem, as she has made no move to use the poem legally...
...consider the play to be a version of the story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman by shooting herself, thereby warning him of an ambush. In Jarcho’s version, however, Bess is the center of what she describes as “a complex of experiences” that include the story of the highwayman. She exists both in the turn-of-the-century setting...
...Krantz's Till We Meet Again. I was the villainous half-brother Bruno, who rapes Courteney Cox and steals all the family champagne and gives it to the Nazis--fantastic. And there's a very good one based on the Barbara Cartland novel Cupid Rides Pillion. I was the highwayman. When I'm uncomfortable in a role, my voice goes high, so it's quite amusing to see me jump out of the bushes with all my sexy gear on and say"--he squeaks--'Stand and deliver...
...from editing the sports pages of his Air Force-base magazine, through a stint as a TIME copy boy, to his first best seller, Hell's Angels, in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes...
...from editing the sports pages of his Air Force?base magazine, through a stint as a TIME copy boy, to his first best seller, 'Hell's Angels,' in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes. "If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity...