Word: novel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel, Hadrian the Seventh. Playwright Peter Luke makes Rolfe the hero of his own story; he is a misfit who, after being rejected twice for the priesthood, develops the fantasy that he becomes Pope. In a performance that is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style, Alec McCowen evokes a sense of pity and affection for Rolfe...
OLIVER! Dickens' novel might at first seem as likely a subject for a musical as Middlemarch, but Lionel Bart's score, Carol Reed's direction and John Box's breathtaking sets all combine to make what is easily the entertainment of the year...
...this first novel Russell Greenan shows descriptive powers as impressive as his unsettling story is fanciful. He has an odd ear for uneven sounds. Describing a man's chuckle, for example, he writes: "It sounded as if someone down inside his throat was crumpling a paper bag." In real life, Greenan is a devoted student and connoisseur of art, which may partly explain his remarkable success at supporting raving fantasy and very real suspense in a single story. With painterly sleight of hand, he recreates the fabulous landscape of a deranged artist's mind. It is a terrain...
...quote is from Carlos Fuentes' novel Where the A ir Is Clear. The speaker is a former Mexican revolutionary who has turned businessman. Emiliano Zapata, a flesh-and-blood revolutionary with the unappeasable single-mindedness of a saint, no doubt would have spat at such words. He was a horse trainer and farmer who led the land-hungry campesinos of Mexico's south-central state of Morelos during the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910. To Zapata opportunists like the character in the Fuentes book were cabrones(s.o.b.'s). "As soon as they see a little chance...
Lately about four plays per season close on the road in this manner. This fall's big road flop was the musicalization of Bruce Jay Friedman's novel, A Mother's Kisses. Friedman did his own adaptation (on the heels of his successful off-Broadway comedy, Scuba Duba), and it closed in Baltimore...