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...serious playwright with serious ideas," says Myra Mayman, director of Office for the Arts, which named Kenney's play the Louis B. Mayer Memorial Production at the Agassiz. Mayman points out that the Agassiz has traditionally been user as forum for original plays including Eugene O'Neill's early works. "P.J. Kenney is in that great tradition," she adds...
Once a self-professed vagabond. Myra Mayman has rarely stayed in any one job for more than a year. In fact, before coming to Harvard 10 years ago as the first director of the Office for the Arts. Mayman--only seven years out of Bryn Mawr College--had held seven different jobs in almost as many cities. As she explains it: "I had no specific career plan in mind...
...Myra Mayman...
...nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions. See Myra Breckinridge; Myron...
Vidal recycles grotesques reminiscent of Myra Breckinridge. He also programs a lot of cultural software: the racially balanced TV news team, the English butler from Duluth's elegant Garfield Heights section who asks a visitor, "Whom shall I say is calling she?" and the ludicrous prose of costume romance-"Beryl flares her nostrils inadvertently, an effect not unlike that of a pomme soufflée getting its second wind." There are also efforts to get laughs from the subject of comparative genitalia...