Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interpreting the play than providing solutions to its technical problems. If there are more than 40 scenes, then he lets them flow into each other swiftly, with one group of actors finishing a sequence while another is starting a new one elsewhere on the stage. Brook mines all the playwright's caustic, worldly wit. A line from Enobarbus, who tells of seeing Cleopatra "hop 40 paces through the public street," inspires him to make the Queen's court a frolicking, unregal place where games and horseplay abound. With the help of Designer Sally Jacobs' simple...
...news. Playwright Paul Giovanni is obviously an addict of Holmesiana, but in the diet of drama he is not past Gerber's. His play is silly, campy and confusing, possibly by design...
...playwright, Ödön von Horváth, had good reasons to be prescient. The son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, he settled in Berlin in 1924, completing Tales from the Vienna Woods in 1930. Tales is being given its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater in an intelligent, well-articulated production that scants none of the play's corrosive undertones...
Despite the title, Shark is not another Jaws rip-off. It concerns two days--the eve and the aftermath of a day-long golf tournament--in the lives of (what else?) several golf caddies. Playwright T.J. Camp focuses on the trivia of his characters' lives--quarrels, flirtations, games--that scratch the surface of more serious conflicts, mostly based on the black caddies' feelings about working in an all-white country club. Only the tips of these deeper issues appear, however; what dominates is verbal and slapstick wit. At the Boston Center for the Arts at the Ehrlich Theatre, 536 Tremont...
...Afraid of Virginia WooIf? Not Edward Albee, who has directed it and other plays he has written. "Nobody can get as much into the mind of the author as the playwright himself," says Albee, 50. For his latest project, he has directed a troupe of six actors who are presenting eight of his one-act plays, including The Zoo Story and The American Dream, on a 35-week tour of U.S. and Canadian universities. For parts of the tour Albee plans to be on hand. But actors, beware. The director has a ready brush-off. "When there is a question...