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Soyinka, who is a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, has also been a prominent political activist since he was imprisoned in 1967 after appealing in an article for a ceasefire in the Nigerian civil...
...started writing poetry, then poetic plays, and then (after moving to St. Paul, Minn., where his work was first staged at the Penumbra Theater Company) developed a realistic style laced with melodious dialogue inspired by the early blues songs he loved. He was influenced by the work of playwright Ed Bullins--who showed him that "you could put black folks on stage as black folks"--but was pretty much a theatrical naif. He hadn't read Shakespeare (except for The Merchant of Venice in school) or Tennessee Williams or virtually any of the other modern American classics. There was some...
...from tortured Wilson characters like Herald Loomis, the itinerant searching for his wife after spending seven years in bondage in Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Wilson's favorite among his works. But the closing line of that play might just as well apply to a playwright ready for the next leg of his remarkable career: "You shining like new money!" --With reporting by Kate Novack/New York City
This success, however, occasionally comes at the price of storytelling. Playwright Sharbari Ahmed created a play in which every individual scene works well, but it doesn’t quite mesh. “Raisins, Not Virgins” tells the story of a young New York professional, Muslim by birth but ambivalent about religion, who is pulled in different directions by her pushy yet loving mother, her boyfriend, and his family...
Vaclav Havel, a leader of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution of 1989, is one of the great heroes of democracy of the twentieth century. He is also a highly regarded playwright and author. On the other hand, I believe the most famous thing Kofi Annan has ever written is the notorious fax in which he explicitly forbade United Nations troops from interfering in the Rwandan genocide. In addition to looking the other way through an ever-growing series of genocides, Annan is presiding over the oil-for-food scandal, one of the largest humanitarian crimes in history, and accusations...