Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always wanted to be up there in front of the audience," admitted Playwright Tennessee Williams, 61. He got his chance last week, when the role of the hard-drinking doctor in Williams' Small Craft Warnings fell vacant for three evenings in an off-Broadway production. Nothing daunted, the author donned grease paint and made his stage debut. Later, he turned up onstage again for a question-and-answer session with the audience. "Could you hear me back there?" he asked worriedly. "Sometimes," was the consensus. Williams' verdict: "It was excruciating. I never want to do it again...
...humor of George S. Kaufman was very much in that laconic, debunking vein. In fact, Kaufman, a lanky ribbon salesman from Pittsburgh who became the most successful Broadway playwright of his time, attended costume balls as the 16th President. In later years, possibly touchy about being mistaken for Raymond Massey, he remarked that the actor would not be satisfied until he was assassinated...
...brother Gog. Symbolically, they are London's janitors. Mythically, they are the survivors of a race of defeated giants. An odd couple whose meaning is obscured by the mists of prehistory, they suggest the dual nature of a single being. Brought up to date by the English novelist, playwright and historian, Andrew Sinclair, Gog and Magog come to signify the haunting memory and failing desire of a geratic Britain...
Died. Alexander Korneichuk, 66, playwright-politician who became one of the Soviet Union's most prominent literary loyalists; in Kiev. Because of his skill in blending party line with plot, Korneichuk won five Stalin Prizes and a number of political appointments during the 1930s and '40s. After Stalin's death, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev and in 1955 attacked the fallen secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in a play called Wings. It marked the start of Khrushchev's public assault on Stalinism. Korneichuk also survived Khrushchev's ouster, serving the present regime...
...divorce. Then the city moves in on him like an octopus, with one tentacle assaulting him, a second robbing him and a third depositing him babbling on a park bench along with a pair of kooks. This would be as painful as it is abrupt were it not for Playwright Wiltse's engagingly fanciful humor and William Atherton's resiliently ingratiating performance...