Word: playwrightes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maureen. Thank God, she can cope with anything, just by being a bundle of nerves," drawled Playwright Tennessee Williams, 61, after watching Maureen Stapleton star in the umpteenth production of his masterwork, The Glass Menagerie. Though Williams criticized...
...Playwright Arthur Miller, the why of violence has always been dramatically crucial-whether it is a man's murder of his family benefactor (A View from the Bridge) or the suicides of Willy Loman and Miller's former wife, Marilyn Monroe (Death of a Salesman and After the Fall). So last year Miller's interest was aroused when he heard about Peter Reilly, 18, who had been convicted of manslaughter for the 1973 killing of his mother in Canaan, Conn.-not far from Miller's home. Reviewing the evidence and the confession (which Reilly made after...
...Surtsey rising from the sea off Iceland in 1963, the Indonesian volcano Batur shooting lava bombs skyward in 1971, Italy's Stromboli still flaring like a Roman candle, and the lava lake of Zaire's Rugarama glowing as luridly as the lower pits of hell. As Absurdist Playwright Ionesco suggests in his introduction to Volcano, all one has to do is gaze at these awesome pictures to realize that in many locales the Apocalypse is a daily event...
...Woody Allen's success as a playwright and as an actor is that he understands so well the real nature of neurotics. Being a neurotic is a life-long affair with its own set of patterns and institutions--unhappy love relationships, psychoanalysis, various combinations of sedatives and stimulants, an acute sensitivity to the sources of one's own pain, and a vivid fantasy life. In between, sometimes in the very midst of periods of depression, the neurotic is capable of remarkable insight into his behavior and its motivation, and yet feels himself entirely incapable of change...
...postwar years of this grim eccentric that Tankred Dorst, a West German playwright who was a P.O.W. in the U.S., has based his play. He asks an enormous imaginative effort from a European or U.S. audience: the moral issues of World War II still seem crystal clear to the countries that fought Hitler. Stereotypes about people therefore persist. Yet Dorst commands respect for Hamsun as a man who above everything else must be true to himself- whether he is right or wrong is to him irrelevant. With masterly compression, the novelist's years of trial are made into...