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Reed's novel, the playwright Ian Ball, a sexist
...late twentieth century, however, the whole reality issue has become virtually fossilized. It is surprising, then, to discover that in The Day Room playwright Don DeLillo has managed to extract some delightfully fresh material from such an overworked vein...
...Tree with its giant, inexplicable rhinocerous, has been original and rewarding. He has no distinctive stylistic trademark other than a fertile imagination and a refreshingly practical understanding of the stage and stage practice. His one consistent method, common with auteur directors, has been to rely on classic texts. A playwright can't argue with a ground-breaking interpretation of his text when he's been dead for a century...
...imagine a hypothetical moment during the rehearsals of Sweet Table at the Richelieu, Serban's latest with the A.R.T., when playwright Ronald Ribman offers a comment from the corner and Serban jumps a foot into the air with fright. The result of his first collaboration with a pre-immortal is a production that is far more textually-oriented than the followers of Serban and the A.R.T. are accustomed, presented with a restrained staging that supports the material, infusing it, as the stage is supposed to do, with life...
...ground, it fires off brilliant metaphysical gags at a pace that would amaze even Woody Allen. If you want to watch the work of a man who knows the secrets of dialogue, suspense and humor, then flock to the next showing of The Day Room. Certainly Ronald Ribman, professional Playwright, could do worse than to buy a ticket and learn how plays ought to be written...