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...almost as many problems as there are stage directions. The coordination of movement and dialogue must be perfect; the hectic action must have a constant momentum which increasingly bombards the audience without exhausting it; and most of all, the production has got to be funny. Ionesco is a hilarious playwright, but his brand of humor requires virtuoso directing and acting to shine at all. The current Quincy House production of Rhinoceros succeeds admirably in solving these problems...
...urbane enough to talk with the fat cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet and Playwright Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) wept. "There is a loss here that a lot of black people aren't aware of," Jones said. "Whitney Young had become a kind of bridge between that part of the community which is activist and that part which is mainstream. He unified...
...year-old niece of a canon of Notre Dame, has a child by her, marries her and then is castrated by the hired thugs of the irate and possibly incestuous-minded uncle? After all that, Abelard and Heloise live in undying love in separate cloisters. Erich Segal, meet Playwright Ronald Millar, your British opposite number...
...nude scene played in one-watt lighting. Chill as A is symbolically castrated by some sinister leprechauns left over from a ballet of yesteryear. Hiss the uncle. Chortle with a tipsy canon (Ronald Radd) and a tipsier abbess (Jacqueline Brookes). So much for medieval color. In dialogue. Playwright Millar has spared his audience the one line that the show subliminally calls to mind: "This thing is bigger than both of us." The lines that are heard call for the violin sobs of a swelling sound track: "It's indescribable -it's as if we invented a new emotion...
...directed Scott in Petulia, found him "intelligent, constructive, decent, professional. If there was a difference of opinion between us, we worked it out in five or ten minutes." Enormously sure of his own instinct for material, Scott was handed the manuscript of Plaza Suite in a restaurant by Playwright Neil Simon; he left to read it and returned little more than an hour later to say he would act in it. During the filming of Scott's TV series, East Side/West Side, Jim Aubrey, then president of CBS-TV, summoned Scott and Producer David Susskind to his office and informed...