Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more importantly, illuminating. As Peter Bailey writes in Newsweek (February 24), ". . . its raison d'etre is cultural nationalism." Its purpose is to further the growth and self-knowledge of the black audience. In today's theater there is more than ever, before a natural empathy between the black playwright and his black audience; there is no need for an exposition of "the problem," the presumption being that the audience, being black, shares certain basic assumptions with the playwright and the characters. He (the black playwright) is concerned with black people's relationships with each other, how they themselves perceive...
JIMMY SHINE. Playwright Murray Schisgal attempts an inner journey through mood, psyche and character, but merely creates a transparent character in a sketchy play. What makes Jimmy more winning than his fate is Dustin Hoffman's ingratiating stage personality...
COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY. Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey was offended by realistic theater, and in this blast at what he felt was wrong with Ireland, he turned his antic imagination loose. The players of the APA Repertory Company make it a rollicking, rumbustious piece of theater...
TANGO, a comedy of debased manners by Polish Playwright Slawomir Mrozek, features David Margulies playing a young man who finds himself with nothing to rebel against except permissiveness...
Died. Jack Kirkland, 66, newspaper-man-turned-playwright who in 1933 transformed Erskine Caldwell's earthy Tobacco Road into one of the most successful Broadway plays of its time (more than 3,000 performances), wrote the Broadway version of Man with the Golden Arm, and recently completed the book for a musical adaptation of Tobacco Road entitled Jeeter; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...