Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays Papp chose for his first season suited his grey color scheme very well, at least as he characterizes them. Papp directed a freewheeling modernization of Hamlet, which he says is about alienation and the question of existence, and Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum, a satire on the evils of selling out and compromise. The Public Theater's artistic director, Gerald Freedman, staged the rock musical Hair, which to Papp is "about loneliness," and Jakov Lind's Ergo, which dealt with guilt for the horrors of World...
Flaws v. Foreign. For next season, Papp has scheduled two plays by off-Broadway Negro Playwright Adrienne Kennedy, and has commissioned Negro Actor Ossie Davis and Composer Gait MacDermot to do a contemporary musical on the race question. "I also have," says Papp, "an adaptation of Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. But what I'm really looking for is American plays. I'd rather do flawed American plays than outstanding foreign plays...
...MEMORANDUM. Joseph Papp's latest production is a harrowing parable on the perils of conformity and cowardice. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel has written a nonsensical narrative about an office manager who delivers himself into the clutches of bureaucracy when an official language is introduced into his firm...
...MEMORANDUM. Joseph Papp's latest production is a harrowing parable on the perils of conformity and cowardice. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel has written a nonsensical narrative about an office man ager who delivers himself into the clutches of bureaucracy when an official language is introduced into his firm...
That at least is how the dramatic moment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was envisaged by Broadway Playwright Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite) and Comedians Tony Randall and Larry Blyden, who performed the skit before 19,000 cheering Eugene McCarthy fans in New York City's Madison Square Garden last week. As the star-fraught spectacular showed, politics this year has attracted an extraordinary input of pulchritude and intellect. In no other election have so many actors, singers, writers, poets, artists, professional athletes and assorted other celebrities signed up, given out and turned on for the candidates...