Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrain is society. Aristotle defined tragedy as the imitation of an action; Beckett's quasi-tragedies are imitations of nonaction. Drama thrives on characters; Beckett's work contains no characters, only the solitary vagrant thoughts of an agonized brain. Why, then, should such an antitheatrical playwright be touted as a master? One may only speculate that a despairing age simply mistakes his statements of paralysis, alienation and isolation for some sort of apocalyptic wisdom...
Playhouse New York. "To Be Young Gifted and Black" is playwright Lorraine Hansberry's dramatic self-portrait. Includes scenes from "A Raisin in the Sun," CH. 2, 8:30 p.m. Color...
...year-old girl named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First on the list: Playwright-Director George Abbott, 85, who observed: "That's not talent, just alphabet. The only people who can beat me are named Aaron...
Still I can't recommend the show to general audiences. For once the gap lies between a director's excellent execution and a playwright's silly intentions-which even skill can't totally transform. But those interested in theater put together by people who take the kind of chances which may one day produce meaning as well as excitement should see Subject to Fits for its moments of passion and promose...
...married couples. So was the gregarious young New York actress I talked to outside, "It's the all too familiar spectre, so to speak," she said, attempting to swagger like Mae West, "of the question just what can and cannot be dose with a play after it leaves the playwright's hands. Why someone went so far as to put on Virginia Woolf with an all gay cast. Albee went to court to stop it. I forget whether he won or lost but it could be seen that way you know...