Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generally drippy re-encounter with his brother Klaus (who covets a Nazi flag, significantly over-lit) and the play ends with the suggestion that Martin, for leaving the country, may be responsible for his parents' concentration camp deaths. In a sense this is rather courageous material for a student playwright, but the net effect is to downgrade courage on the scale of virtues and to uplift subtlety, the quality most sorrowfully absent from Ten Years After the Party...
...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). The Hamster of Happiness, starring Mildred Dunnock, presents a new actress (Susan Tyrrell) and a new playwright (Charles Eastman) with a story about a cantankerous woman and her frightened daughter...
PANTAGLEIZE is Michel de Ghelderode's inventive celebration of the individual "unfit for anything except love, friendship and ardor," and a condemnation of our "autodisintegrated age." The APA production projects much of the excitement and magic typical of the Belgian playwright...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. To Shakespeare, Hamlet's university friends were nothing but functionaries, but to British Playwright Tom Stoppard, they are pawns in a weighted chess match -for which they cannot even decipher the rules. Brian Murray, John Wood and Paul Hecht provide spirited, sophisticated acting...
...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX. A new and gifted playwright, Israel Horovitz, has taken the tiger of violence that prowls the New York streets. and released it on the stage with terrifying veracity as two young punks savage an East Indian...