Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everyone gave credit for the hit to Barrault-but not quite everyone. Snapped Playwright Gide: "I am astonished at the magnificent tour de force I have accomplished...
...Winslow Boy (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...
...Playwright Tennessee Williams called for a state theater as the only remedy for the ills besetting the American stage, yesterday, before an audience of ticket-holders to the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "An Enemy of the People...
...noted playwright will talk to members of the BDC, their guests and all holders of tickets to the current production, in Sanders Theatre at 4 o'clock. After reading selections from the script of the latest play. "A Streetcar Named Desire," which opened in Boston this week, Williams will discuss his work in the theatre and answer questions about poetic drama...
Bernard Shaw's treatment of the identical theme demonstrates Ibsen's inadequacy. Taking his semifaseist philosophy partially from the Norwegian playwright himself, Shaw builds an effective and convincing argument in "Heartbreak House" and other plays because his technique--his language, ideas, and situations--is bright and sharp enough to carry his doctrine. Ibsen bases his philosophic appeal on a situation that falls flat, on characters that are crude white and blackest black. The language--whether his fault or that of the translator--is so stilted, so drab that it tends to mire the play in a morass of monotony...