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...KNOW ANYTHING about politics or about acting but I do know a lot about students," says student playwright P.J. Kenney '85 about the inspiration for his new production, Common Knowledge, now playing at the Agassiz Theater...
Already the author of three produced plays by the time he graduated from high school (including one written in the sixth grade), Kenney entered his fourth set at a California health club in a young playwright's competition. One of the judges wrote back and suggested that he do his next play about something he was more familiar with...
...serious playwright with serious ideas," says Myra Mayman, director of Office for the Arts, which named Kenney's play the Louis B. Mayer Memorial Production at the Agassiz. Mayman points out that the Agassiz has traditionally been user as forum for original plays including Eugene O'Neill's early works. "P.J. Kenney is in that great tradition," she adds...
...help laughing at Babe's thwarted attempts to hang herself with knitting yarn, or at the speculation over Lenny's secret rendezvous with a Tennessee gentleman. Yet simultaneously, both scenes arouse pity--a comic pathos that only a perceptive and talented playwright like Henley could achieve...
When Crimes of the Heart is at its best, the cast is naturally witty, the script is true to life, and the direction devoid of artificial contrivances. At worst, the director resorts to gushy sentimentality, the acting borders on melodrama, and the playwright tries too hard to tamper with a meaningful comedy that speaks for itself. An entertaining evening--definitely. A Pulitzer-worthy performance? Not anymore