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...HOMECOMING, Harold Pinter's study of a family's control and betrayal of each other, represents the Minnesota Theater Company's first foray into the bleak world of the British playwright. Joseph Anthony (Mary, Mary) directs, Lee Richardson and Robin Gammell star, and the play will be performed in repertory through Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...trying to build a strong society, a revolutionary society that they hope will ultimately conquer the world. But they don't allow this kind of sexuality. They came to the conclusion that this is a destructive force. I don't think the function of the playwright, the author, the artist, is to reflect what's going on, any more than I should reflect what's going on. I think their function ought to be to lead, to direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: BILLY GRAHAM: THE SICKNESS OF SODOM | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a black panther of a play, stalking the stage as if it were an urban jungle. Playwright Charles Gordone is too honest to lie about a bright brotherly tomorrow, but he tells the racial truth about today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 4, 1969 | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a moving tribute to the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, made up of readings and dramatizations from her writings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 4, 1969 | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...famous phrase, Keats quite rightly wrote of Shakespeare's "negative capability", by which he meant the playwright's ability to avoid putting his own personality and opinions into the mouths of his characters. But this "negative capability" was least in evidence in Henry V, in which Shakespeare set out to limn the unlimited glory of a national hero-conqueror, a model monarch. Yet Kahn has tried to make the play into a sardonic antiwar tract...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Anti-War 'Henry V' Is Fascinating Failure | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

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