Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD puts a Shakespearean duo in a Pirandellian situation, then confers on them Beckettian angst mixed with Beyond the Fringe humor. British Playwright Tom Stoppard's play is well served by the acting of Brian Murray and John Wood and the direction of Derek Goldby...
Symbols & Substance. Since Albee is a playwright of the surreal, the coincidence of the wives' being call girls is not particularly damaging. But the husbands' casual murder of a drunken neighbor who discovers their illicit secret is less acceptable; it seems an excessively melodramatic device for making the point that the corruption of values means death...
Michel de Ghelderode, the Belgian playwright who died in 1962, had a studied aversion to the 20th century. For a long time, the century reciprocated. A recluse racked by asthma, Ghelderode once described himself as a "no-making-money author." Although he began writing plays in 1918, he had little success in Europe until the 1940s, and U.S. productions have been scanty and unsuccessful. Now Pantagleize, a play Ghelderode wrote in 1929, is seeing Broadway for the first time in a bold, resourceful production that is the opening repertory offering of the APA-Phoenix's current Manhattan season. Ghelderode...
...fixed identity, despite such flashes of clarity. In the parable "Everything and Nothing," Borges describes Shakespeare exhausting all the guises of reality, unable to perceive any "fundamental identity of existing." The last paragraph imagines the playwright's final awareness...
...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scott, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...