Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some playwrights bring their lives into the theater. Others bring only their reading lists. The Man in the Glass Booth proves that Playwright Robert Shaw, the English actor and novelist, has read accounts of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as well as Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Israel and the comments on Hannah Arendt's book. Unfortunately, his play recapitulates the past without transforming it. It raises the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity and the paranoic personality of the archkiller, along with a recital of atrocities. But it offers no fresh illumination...
Ultimately, a spectator at the trial announces that Goldman is really a Jew [the telltale SS tattoo in his armpit urns out to be a self-inflicted cigar burn). This denouement makes the playwright seem like a bumbling amateur and the Israeli secret agents as incredibly inept. Goldman, it appears, was a kind of Christ-surrogate who wanted to be martyred so that his people might feel that some fitting atonement had been made for the monstrous wrongs done them. But Shaw's conception of martyrdom makes it seem less a matter of conscience that an attention-getting device...
FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugene Ionesco. In a chaotic but painfully fascinating self-analysis, a leading playwright of the Theater of the Absurd discusses the neurotic roots...
Black power has translated into black pride, and with it the drive for business power and ballot power. Many Negroes have channeled their energies into black-run businesses, black cultural festivals, black historical groups, black community organization-all of which have released some tensions. Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones has shifted from promoting violence to campaigning for the election of Negro candidates to fill two of the three vacancies on the Newark city council. Black Militant Ron Karenga has also become an advocate of ballot power. He worked hard and effectively to prevent rioting from breaking out in Los Angeles after...
...This is a letter of hate," Playwright John Osborne cried out in 1961 in an open letter to England written from France. "Damn you, England. You're rotting now and quite soon you'll disappear." Neither England, nor Osborne for that matter, disappeared, and today the Angry Young Man has taken to attacking new targets. In another open letter he complains, "I am exploited ruthlessly by the Iron Curtain countries, who steal my work" in comparison with the United States, where "the capitalist system has degenerated into a new era of squalor, ugliness, brutality and oppression." All these...