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...Force and gave an old formula an ingenious plot twist-boy meets girl, boy flees girl, girl gets boy. Q.E.D.: the Life Force triumphs again. To this, as a metaphysical dimension, Shaw added a third-act "Don Juan in Hell" sequence, a kind of afterworld dream in which the playwright argues that the Life Force has developed consciousness, and is using man in order to discern purpose and destiny in brute existence: "To be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer." Retorts the Devil: "On the rocks, most likely...
Spring Awakening. In 1891 German Playwright Frank Wedekind psychographed an adolescent torn by the conflicting demands of natural desire and social propriety. In this revival, the Juilliard Theater Center revealed anew that April is still the cruelest month...
...They are like people coming out of a dream, blinking in the light," says Playwright Arthur Miller of the artists, film makers and writers he has been interviewing in China. The author of Death of a Salesman spent a month gathering material for a book, Chinese Encounters, a joint venture with his photographer wife Inge Morath. "I found them remote and totally cut off," Miller said of his subjects. Until the government's recent liberalizing trend, they were "sequestered on farms feeding pigs." Although none of the Chinese Miller met knew of his work, there were some recollections...
Paradise Lost was not just any new opera; it came as highly touted as a Cecil B. DeMille spectacular. The libretto was written by Playwright Christopher Fry (The Lady's Not for Burning). Chicago Lyric spent well over half a million dollars on the production, a near record. The musical forces were mighty: a Wagnerian orchestra of 96, a chorus of 100. The preparation was elaborate. Choral rehearsals began in April; the orchestra practiced an unprecedented 110 hours...
DIED. Robert Alan Aurthur, 56, television playwright, who wrote for such 1950s series as Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One; of lung cancer; in New York City. A Marine combat correspondent during World War II, Aurthur wrote short fiction for The New Yorker before becoming one of TV's Big Four dramatists (the other three: Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayefsky). Aurthur's award-winning credits included Man on the Mountain top (1954) and A Man Is Ten Feet Tall...