Word: playing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May directs both her own play, Adaptation, and Terrence McNally's Next in an evening of perceptive and richly comic one-acters...
...Glory! Hallelujah!", described by its author, A. M. Barlow, as a Civil War "parable play," explores the nature of war and its effects on the human spirit...
...PATRIOT FOR ME. When John Osborne steps into the spotlight and throws a nightlong temper tantrum, the dramatic results are explosively and corrosively alive. But when he goes rummaging through history for his theme, he is far less successful. This play is about Alfred Redl, a homosexual officer in the army of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire who was blackmailed by the Russians into turning traitor. Unfortunately, Osborne's characters are not immersed in history; they merely wear it like a costume...
Professor Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's assistant for national-security affairs, has an improbable passion, which he perhaps picked up from his boss: professional football. Kissinger analyzes the play as if it were a parable of war and peace. Watching a Miami Dolphins-Oakland Raiders game with White House Aide William Safire, Kissinger second-guessed the signals accurately until the middle of the second quarter, when Miami had the ball. "What now?" asked Safire. Kissinger observed that Miami Quarterback Bob Griese had not yet passed on first down, and might try it this time to catch Oakland off balance...
Chris Papagianis took a pass from left wing Demetrio Mena two minutes later and powered the ball past the Blue goalie to end a personal scoring drought. Auritt tacked on the fourth tally with three minutes left to play when he slid into the Andover goal with the ball and a Blue fullback after receiving a cross from Mena...