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...successful revival of a play from a former era often says more about the audience than it does about the playwright. Nine playgoers out of ten would much prefer to have their hearts warmed and their curiosities aroused than to have their minds challenged. Clifford Odets knew that. He knew that the public roots for a fallen hero to make a comeback. He knew that playgoers would wonder if an alcoholic could stay sober at a crucial moment in his career. He intuited that every woman in the audience would ask herself if she would suffer and support such...
...Playhouse Biography: "A Search for Strindberg." Max Von Sydow plays the famous Swedish playwright. 7:30 p.m., March 25, Chan...
...than flee with the fiery bohemian poet who can fend for himself. There are exceptions. St. Joan wins martyrdom, and Major Barbara wins control of a munitions empire, both rather atypical social pursuits. And that tells us something. Drama is a reflexive, not an innovative art form, and a playwright can rarely advance much beyond the boundaries that society has reached in its consensus of values and acceptable roles...
Much of the drama of the past quarter-century has fostered and focused on images of woman that stress her competitive stance and her sexual behavior-aggressive, passive or inhibited. Naturally these categories sometimes overlap, and they are rarely the sole concern of any serious playwright...
...temptress contains one that may possibly be paramount. It is the fantasy of a relatively passive male who would like the woman to take the sexual initiative or even requires her to do so. Few writers have caught that particular aspect with the exactitude of a speech in British Playwright E.A. Whitehead's Alpha Beta, a corrosive drama about a married pair that death would do well to part. The two characters, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot, are quite past the point of sleeping with each other, but in her proprietary way Mrs. Elliot wonders aloud if Mr. Elliot would...