Word: playwright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resentment against their parents. From the very first lines, parents and their failure to nurture and to love their kids are blamed for about 85 percent of the world's evils. That might be okay if the script were consistently kept to the runaways' perspectives out too often playwright's thetoric intrudes. This is particularly annoying in a monologue like. "To The Dead of Family Wars," though Lois Johnson musters up enough conviction and passion for the occasion...
...speaks. The tale they relate has already reached its resolution, and its outcome is revealed almost immediately. Yet the description of the calculated murder of an escaped convict by a greedy old woman (Kathy Bates) and her submissive husband (Andy Backer) is spellbinding. Credit belongs in equal measure to Playwright Frank Manley and to the brilliant Bates, who reveals a deadly malevolence with matter-of-fact simplicity...
Days and Nights Within portrays the relationship between a suspected spy (Beth Dixon) and her Communist interrogator (Ken Jenkins). Playwright Ellen McLaughlin has devised some imaginative, lyrical dream sequences, and the acting, especially Dixon's, throbbed with suppressed emotion, but the story provides no revelatory payoff...
...acters complete the collection. The Pole salutes the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who perished in the Antarctic. It also celebrates Nabokov's favorite turf: terra incognita. The playwright liked to dream of butterfly-hunting trips to the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, the Amazon. And he recalled "tingles of delight, of envy, of anguish (when) I watched on the television screen the first floating footsteps of man in the talcum of our satellite and how I despised those who maintained it was not worth all those dollars to walk in the dust of a dead world...
...whole list of legendary things that Rousseau did not do or see or say, things he cooked up himself (such as the innocent fiction that he had been to Mexico in the army of Napoleon III and had seen real jungles) or that were invented by friends (like the playwright Alfred Jarry's absurd story that he, like Pygmalion, taught the old boy to paint). And it would finish with the belief that Rousseau (1844-1910) was one of the greatest protomodern artists...