Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Animated versions of five short plays are the focal point of a program on the work of English Playwright Harold Pinter. Voices for "The Pinter People" are done by Donald Pleasence, Pinter, his wife Vivien Merchant, Richard Briers, Kathleen Harrison and Dandy Nichols...
Since Che (Larry Bercowitz) is supposed to be Che Guevara, the play poses as a kind of genital love-hate profile of U.S. relations with revolutionary regimes. In terms of Playwright Lennox Raphael's limited dramatic imagination, it is rather like Jean Genet rewritten by an inept Noel Coward...
HADRIAN VII. Playwright Peter Luke makes Frederick William Rolfe, one of the most freakishly talented eccentrics of English letters, the hero of Rolfe's own novel of wish-fulfillment, Hadrian the Seventh. Alec McCowen gives a polished performance as Rolfe, a rejected candidate for priesthood who is elected Pope...
...Playwright Herlihy, whose imaginative, sharply etched novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down have been made into films starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, is a dark and savage satirist. The six-year-old Theater Company of Boston seems to know exactly what he is laughing about...
Adaptation--Next -- Two very funny and chilling plays, both directed by Mike Nichols' brilliant ex-partner, Elaine May. The first one-acter, written by Miss May, shows the game of life as seen in terms of a TV quiz show. The second, by Terrence McNally (a perverse playwright's perverse playwright, and happily so), is about a 48-year-old man undergoing a humiliating army physical. Gabe Dell and James Coco--two of the best actor-comedians around--play the leads. At the GREENWICH MEWS THEATRE, W. 13th...