Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIVORCED. John Osborne, 47, British actor and playwright (Look Back in Anger, Inadmissible Evidence) who was the angriest of the Angry Young Men who slashed at the complacency of Britain in the '50s; by his fourth wife, Actress Jill Bennett, 45; on the grounds of his adultery; after nine years of marriage; in London...
...player piano, which he had found in a whorehouse, covered with pictures of naked women, and when he could sneak away from his bossy wife Carlotta, he would go down to the basement, drop nickels into the slot and listen to ragtime. Once when Cerf was visiting, the ailing playwright crooked his finger and beckoned him downstairs, like a mischievous little boy. In the middle of a tune, Carlotta came down. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," she screamed, "bringing Bennett down here! You're in pain, remember...
...with evident delight. In part, this confirms their good taste, for the production is handsomely mounted, adroitly directed and formidably performed. But it may be due to the fact that these days Shaw fills a newly felt vacuum in the theater. In recent years there have been plenty of playwright absurdists, psychologists, realists or surrealists. But when it came to the drama of ideas or a pure pyrotechnic display of language, there was only Tom Stoppard. And Stoppard is a pussycat compared with that tiger named Bernard Shaw. like his disciple Bertolt Brecht, Shaw regarded plot as the sentimental opiate...
...inspired is worth less to a playwright than to be obsessed. With Eugene O'Neill, it is the isolated torment of the soul's loneliness. With Arthur Miller, it is the nagging quest for justice. With Tennessee Williams, it is the poignant cry of the violated heart. And though Britain's Alan Ayckbourn does not rank with these playwrights, he, too, has his ambient obsession. Again and again (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests and now Absent Friends) he dwells on the crimping horizons and absurdist conventional fritter of suburban life...
Died. Nat Dorfman, 81, journalist, playwright (Errant Lady, Take My Tip) and press agent who represented more than 300 Broadway shows; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dorfman began working as a press agent in 1920, and later wrote a humorous column for the King Features Syndicate. Dorfman retired last January after 17 years with the New York City Opera...