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...Lawrence has long been admired as both a poet and painter. As a novelist, he was a passionate realist and an impassioned crusader for plain talk about sex. As a playwright, however, Lawrence has been ignored; his eight plays were poorly received on the rare occasions when they were performed during his lifetime, and they were first published in a collected edition only three years ago. Their new eminence is the result of a brilliant repertory pro duction of three of them at London's Royal Court Theater by a relatively un known director, Peter Gill...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. British Playwright Tom Stoppard has chosen Hamlet's scapegoats to get across his metaphysical message regarding the futility of many lives and the inevitability of death. He is well served by the adept acting of Brian Murray and John Wood and the dynamic direction of Derek Goldby...
Last week 50 Negroes, led by Playwright LeRoi Jones, trooped into the Newark city council chamber to confront Imperiale's vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...
Black comedy has spawned black farce. Loot is a saucy, unremittingly funny play, spewing its deftly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers (Liam Redmond), marriage, the Roman Catholic Church, police stupidity and police brutality. It suffers, as do all "nothing sacred" plays, from the suspicion that the playwright, the late Joe Orton, was shocking no one quite so much as himself...
Goldby lets the pace stall at moments to let the dialogue sink in, as if Orton had some comment to make on life, instead of mocking all comment on life or death. Orton was a promising young English playwright (Entertaining Mr. Sloane) who was murdered by his friend (Kenneth Halliwell) last August (TIME, Sept. 15). Both his fate and some of his lines suggest that he had looked intimately into the abyss of existence. But Loot is not despairing, and even its shock effects are surprisingly good-natured...