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Seven years ago, in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, British Playwright Tom Stoppard turned Hamlet inside out and seemed to prove that even for bit players, great tragedy has no silver lining. When critics inquired about the play's message, Stoppard averred that this is no age for message in the theater. "One writes about human beings under stress," he said, "whether it is about losing one's trousers or being nailed to a cross." To risk a play whose primary level was philosophical, he added, "would be fatal." In Jumpers, that is just the gamble...
These goings-on may be taken as the kind of crazy crime and panachement that Stoppard displayed so well in The Real Inspector Hound. But the playwright also offers a long, rambling monologue by Dotty's rumpled husband, George Moore. Moore is a professor of moral philosophy. In his office opposite Dotty's bedroom, he is busy dictating a discourse in defense of moral absolutes -in fact, of the whole idea of goodness and even the possibility of God's existence. "Is God?" he begins. But soon he is revising: "Are God?" Before long, Moore has fumblingly...
Hardesty Park is by William McCleery, an apparently somewhat lightweight Broadway playwright who had some successes in the '40s and is hitting the comeback trail after a stint teaching at Princeton. Tonight till Saturday at Adams House...
WILLIAM McCLEERY is an American playwright who tasted the sweet success of Broadway during the late forties. Good Housekeeping, Hope for the Best, and Parlor Story were his big hits. Now he splits his time between his editorial duties at The University, a Princeton quarterly, and the playwrighting courses he gives to undergraduates there. This week he has been at Harvard to offer benevolent advice and the salty insight of a rugged theater veteran to the Harvard cast of his new play Hardesty Park. The play opened last night in the Adams House dining room for its "pre-Broadway...
...uncomplicated. Julian Weston is a maggot-pale homosexual prostitute, strung out like a taut wire between self-inflicted denigration and a yearning for clean, well-lighted love. What these totally disparate characters-the one in John Hancock's film Bang the Drum Slowly, the other in English Playwright John Hopkins' Broadway drama Find Your Way Home -have in common is the very uncommon talent of Actor Michael Moriarty, who plays them both. With the release of the film in August and the opening of the play last month, Moriarty has emerged as one of the top young actors...