Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University of the South Tennessee Williams, Litt.D., playwright...
Edward Albee, playwright (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), on his arrangement with Hollywood: "They commission me to write screenplays. They pay me handsomely, and then they don't film them. It's invisible work...
MARRIED. Paloma Picasso, 29, daughter of the late painter and his longtime mistress Françoise Gilot; and Raphael Lopez Sanchez, 30, Argentine-born playwright for whose productions Paloma has designed sets and costumes; in Paris...
...mishaps. The cast manages generally to overcome the mood-change by keeping the tone as lighthearted as possible and by stressing funny one-liners ("his pockets were full of persuasive arguments," is offered as an explanation for human fickleness). But frequently, the buffoonery seems to go against the playwright's intent. In addition, the effort to maintain a certain amount of continuity between acts requires a rather confusing set of blood-ties between characters; at times it would be helpful if the Loeb provided a geneology of the sort that comes tucked inside long Russian novels...
There is an argument to be made in favor of the playwright, suggesting that the link between the plays was essentially a political one. In this light, Figaro would have to stress the inequality of the friendship between man and master, as seen in Count Almaviva's failure to return Figaro's help in the second half of the play. That argument, however, would have little evidence to support it except the final chorus, which includes lines like, "But hear the thunder from the left, denouncing property as theft," and is sung to the tun of the British Labour Party...