Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD takes the little men of Shakespeare and transforms them into the little Every-men of Beckett. In his American debut, British Playwright Tom Stoppard, 30, offers an agile, witty play that snaps with verbal acrobatics and precisely choreographed dances of the mind, while coming heartbeat close to the pity and terror of mortality. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood are phenomenal, and Derek Goldby's direction has tensile strength...
STEPHEN D. is Irish Playwright Hugh Leonard's attempt to dramatize James Joyce's autobiographical tale of Stephen Dedalus. While the richly lyrical Joycean prose pleases the ear, the play is a series of vignettes that fails to bring to life the Artist as a Young Man who vows to "forge the conscience of my race" in "silence, exile and cunning." While Stephen Joyce (no kin) gives a competent performance as the writer-hero, Stephen remains dead, alas...
...Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid are the heroine and hero is another secret that is safe with the playwright. They live in eternity and are decked out in white paper beards, presumably indicating that they are figures in mythology. Monotonous, ugly and self-concerned, their verbal mating dance is devoid of tenderness or desire. The innate hostility, fear, and infinite self-disgust that animate this twosome are conveyed with meticulous zeal by Billie Dixon as Harlow and Richard Bright as Billy...
Died. Margaret Ayer Barnes, 81, playwright and novelist; of a pulmonary embolism; in Cambridge, Mass. Bedridden in 1926 after an automobile accident, she scrawled manuscripts while propped up in her hospital bed. Less than four years later, three of her plays (Age of Innocence, Jenny, Dishonored Lady) had run on Broadway; in 1931, she received the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Years of Grace...
...Broadway a couple of seasons ago, Wait Until Dark seemed like a wrong number for Playwright Frederick Knott, who once dialed M for Murder. The thriller's screen incarnation gives him a chance to call again. This time he gets through-with a better scenario, set and cast...