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...Irish Republican Army, wrote Playwright Sean O'Casey in 1967, has "always had two divisions-those who carried bread in one hand and a gun in the other: and those who carried a gun in one hand and a lily in the other-the realist and the romantic." In Northern Ireland last week, the most militant members of the outlawed I.R.A. were carrying neither bread nor lilies, but only guns. Worse, they were using small children in their battles. As Belfast erupted in its worst violence since the 1969 riots between the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority...
...Playwright Arthur Kopit-who is best known for his hit, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad-is now busy working on a new screenplay. Its Kopital title, which is presumably half the creative battle: Good Morning, Berenger! How's Everything Today? Not Bad? That's Good...
PAUL ZWINDEL with his second play. And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, has accomplished what another quasi-literary rising playwright. Tom Stoppard, failed to. He has emerged from his The Effect of Gamma Ray on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds success off-Broadway last season with a phenomenally entertaining tragi-comedy about two sisters, both spinster school teachers, at war with themselves and with their hard-boiled, married and successful sister Ceil. The combination at work in this production of superb acting, smooth, carefully thought-out direction, and clever, deftly turned dialogue makes the finished product well nigh irresistible. Estelle...
...child, a moral rebel with a lone eagle complex who believed that the master spirit soars above the common herd of slaves, who mill about in their social bondage of marriages, families, businesses, religions, political parties and national allegiances. A friend who heard Ibsen fulminating at the playwright BjØrnson's home in 1883 said of him: "He is an absolute anarchist, wants to make a tabula rasa, put a torpedo under the whole Ark; mankind must begin again at the beginning of the world . . . the great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions...
Samuel Beckett's message comes across clearly, but not through the exponential words of an essayist or even the straightforward narrative of a conventional playwright. And last weekend at Sanders Theatre, Earl Kim relayed it with music...