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...might expect from a play that focuses on revolutionary politics and was written by a New Left B.U. political science professor turned playwright, the script of Emma is not flawless. The dialogue at times degenerates into trite cliches, complete with occasional bouts of slogan shouting...
Lilliam Hellman, the well-known playwright and author, who was blacklisted in the '50s for suspected ties with the Communist Party, has been selected by South House as this fall's Atherton Lecturer...
...that Julia raises. Instead, they misguidedly reproduce Hellman's convoluted narrative, all the while padding the story with superfluous scenes that add literal-minded psychological footnotes to the action. The movie that emerges is a glossy bio flick that superficially charts the rise of Lillian Hellman, Young Leftist Playwright...
...Brazilian Playwright Roberto Athayde's feeble premise that the theater goers are the students, and they are encouraged to answer back only to be squelched by Miss Margarida, a form of bearbaiting, not dialogue. If the play means to be a parable of political tyranny, the point is fully made in the first ten minutes. More probably, Playwright Athayde means to say that we are force-fed prefabricated information throughout our lives. He also goes cosmic over morality with the appearance of a skeleton .nd Miss Margarida's big bad news: "You are all going to die." Without...
...what Robeson meant when at the end of his life he quoted a statement by Frederick Douglass--"A man is worked on by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances carve him out as well"--is a difficult touchy task. To say that playwright Philip Hayes Dean's one-man play, Paul Robeson, starring James Earl Jones and directed by Charles Nelson Reilly, does as sensitive a job as could have been done, given the format and the conventions of the theater, may appear too easy. For this production has upset many...