Word: playwright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Playwright August Wilson tops his last Broadway hit, Fences, with a mystical and moving slice of life set in a black boardinghouse...
...most French citizens, Le Pen's triumph was cause for a certain amount of embarrassment and concern. Said Rumanian-born French Playwright Eugene Ionesco: "It is unacceptable and shameful for a country like France and for people like the French. Enough is enough...
...still rather like the playwright...
...BUTTERFLY. Playwright David Henry Hwang reimagines the bizarre espionage case of a French diplomat and his Chinese transvestite lover as a bravura Broadway rap on East vs. West and male vs. female...
Good idea, thinks playwright Caryl Churchill, and presto change-o, in act two, the characters, having aged only 25 years, find themselves as 1980s yuppies. How novel. The difference is that since sexual repression--compared to today's morality---is a thing of the past, the first act's primary source of humor is gone. (The characters are still sexually confused, like effeminate homosexual Edward, who discovers he likes women and comes up with the laughable line, "I think I'm a lesbian.") Without the humor, Act Two becomes deadly serious and agonizingly ponderous...