Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacLeish's poetry is tremendously powerful and his heightened richness of speech creates a very moving play, which is well worth seeing for its language as well as for its acting...
...becomes a playwright, Johnston said, "The only way to get your play read if you're a woman is to become secretary to the boss or prop girl at the theatre--in order to get to know the people who will eventually make decisions on scripts. On Friday say, 'I'll fix that for you over the weekend,' then come back with it done on Monday. The Big Boss thinks you're clever and you have a foot-hold on the ladder...
...Tufts production preserves the compactness of the play and gives it a uniformly paced smoothness. It also conveys the play's balance of emotional intensity, gaiety, sophistication and simplicity...
...Most of the business performed on the stage, too, is illusion. The art of creating a play is the art of creating illusion, and acting is the ability to convey the illusion of emotion. Any actor who believes he can improve his performance by carrying on stage the actual ashes of his grandmother is simply daffy...
Johnston defends the repertory theatre vigorously. "The repertory side of the theatre is the most interesting side, because it is the only place where the actor can play a great many roles and where the author can see his plays tried out without their having to be rewritten...