Word: playwrightes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest hits of the London theater season come from the pen of Ben Travers, an 89-year-old playwright who might well have been expected to have taken his final curtain. The National Theater has revived Travers' Plunder, serene fare today but daring when it was first produced 48 years ago because it set jewel theft and murder in a French-window farce. And brand new is The Bed Before Yesterday, a West End comedy that stars Joan Plowright as a foul-tempered, filthy-rich, frustrated widow belatedly discovering the pleasures of the marriage bed. The double-header triumph...
Present Laughteris designed simply to entertain. Coward spoofs the "theater of ideas" advocated by Ibsen and Chekov in the character of Roland Maule, a young cuckoo-headed would-be playwright. Maule, a caricature of the "serious" dramatist, spouts streams of cliched arguments about "commercial theater," "intellectual significance,"and of course "posterity." Ironically Maule adores and admires Garry, who personified frivolous commercial theater...
Questions of terror and identity dominate the Loeb staging of The Blacks, written by playwright Jean Genet in 1958. Despite weak direction that at times reduces the complexity of Genet to a confused gray monotone, some unnerving answers do emerge in John Kirkwood's Black CAST production...
...together every Tuesday for an argument. "We pick a different subject every week. This time it's food," says the actor-director. "We're deciding what the perfect lunch is." Sounds like a toothsome assignment for such noted trenchermen. But Gourmet Ustinov insists that the playwright's fare is indigestible. "It's difficult to talk with obvious sensuality about things you hate-such as liver and kidneys," he beefs. "I had to do a character performance...
Occasionally a playwright comes along to chalk up the score all over again. David Rabe did it with visceral force in Sticks and Bones, a play in which the hero is at peace only with the skeletons who stalk his mind. Medal of Honor Rag is a slighter drama argued like a legal brief rather than felt like a wound...