Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Importance of Being Earnest. In the arrogant exclusivity of his definition of drama, Grotowski elevates the director and the actor while excluding much of the world's dramatic literature. But when it comes to plays and themes that are stocked with spiritual tinder, Grotowski has proved that no one can set them more fiercely ablaze...
...17th century Japanese poet. To this role, Nicholas Kepros brings a wry gravity of mien and a musical clarity of line delivery that merits his being called Zen Gielgud. Basho is on a quest for enlightenment, a radiant shaft of wisdom that will have the direct luminous perception of one of his poems...
...given his first birth, but an artist has to earn his second one. So arduous is this struggle, so embedded in a writer's marrow, that he almost always devotes one autobiographical work to it. Playwright Oliver Hailey's Who's Happy Now? may not be autobiographical, but it has the indelible sound of private experience. His play belongs among the most perceptive portrayals of the son-father relationship that have been brought to the stage. Its special quality is that it is an Oedipal farce, zany, effervescently comic and full of as many crazy laughs...
...father claims that he hates the boy, which is only half true. Not the least of Hailey's sound intuitions is the recognition that love and hate are not opposites but twins. The father is a butcher. He is violent, sentimental, and fiercely masculine. He has kept a one-fisted grip on two women for 20 years, his wife (Teresa Wright) and his mistress, played by Rue McClanahan with giggly glory and flawless timing...
...These one-word titles betray a poverty of dramatic invention. Stomp's cast is energetic, visibly sincere and hopelessly amateurish. The show's ingredients come in the familiar Dropout Kit-anti-Viet Nam, pro-pot, anti-haircuts, pro-four-letter words. The saddest trouble with so many of "the kids" is that they have become such conformist old fossils while scarcely out of their teens...