Word: playwrightes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agassiz Theater under the auspices of Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid--an organization that raises scholarship money through musicals--or more often in the far-from-ideal conditions of house dining rooms and common rooms. Even in these cases, no one is out to make things any easier for undergraduate playwright-composers...
Forbidden Fruit. Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey dismissed Wodehouse (pronounced Woodhouse) as English literature's "performing flea," an acidulous comment that P.G. himself ("Plum" to friends) loved to repeat. But other writers, ranging from Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell to Bertrand Russell and Evelyn Waugh, recognized that Wodehouse was a good bit more. Waugh, an indisputable master of the comic novel, would reread his favorites from the Wodehouse canon every year, as some people go back for spiritual sustenance to Shakespeare or the Bible. "For Mr. Wodehouse there has been no fall of Man, no 'aboriginal calamity...
...Playwright Paul Foster is not a newcomer to the stage. His Tom Paine (1968) enjoyed substantial popularity off-Broadway, particularly with younger audiences, thanks in part to Tom O'Horgan's flamboyant staging. In Marcus Brutus, Foster has followed Tom Stoppard's lead in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Just as R. & G. used Hamlet for its substructure, Marcus Brutus uses Julius Caesar...
Foster's switch is this: an aspiring young playwright named simply Cat (Ed Rombola) conjures up the spirits of the ancient Roman conspirators. They hover over his typewriter in his New York apartment. Cat also summons up Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, who doubles as his actress girl friend Memphis (Lea Scott). He tells them that since Brutus is a rational man and "rational men don't kill," he plans to revise their destinies so that Caesar will not be assassinated in the forum...
...greater theatrical interest is one specific echo from Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author-that illusion transcends reality once solidly conceived characters make the quantum jump from the playwright's imagination to the living stage. The playwright will change, wither away and die; his characters will remain changeless...