Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rapture, about a man trying to reconstruct his life and his discovery of the inadequacy of scientific logic to meet his needs, is playing Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. at Playwright's Platform, Church of all Nations, 333 Trement St., Boston...
...Testament offers an eternal guide to human psychology and the model for a vaguely cyclical interpretation of history. But the analogies he sets up are tenuous and, one suspects, carelessly thought out. The mythical and the mundane are only superficially integrated, and the serious analysis which the playwright looks to be inviting is better left untried...
...Unfriendly Ten," Director Billy Wilder is often quoted as saying, "only two had any talent; the other eight were just unfriendly." Wilder is wrong--they had talent, but they were not company men in a company town. They felt self-conscious in the industry. Moss Hart, the New York playwright, once told Clifford Odets (not one of the Ten but persecuted later) that Odets's Hollywood experience had persuaded many writers to turn left and go west. "You mean," Odets asked eagerly, "my plays convert them?" "No," Hart said, "your salary...
Days in the Trees seems like a bad dream from which the playwright could not awaken. Nor can the actors who shudder convulsively with the dire reality...
...week's go around had the look of a literary row par excellence. The clawing began when Essayist Trilling, 71, widow of Critic Lionel Trilling, disclosed that Little, Brown & Co. had canceled her book contract. The reason, said a representative of the publisher, was "unpleasantly personal attacks" on Playwright Hellman, 69, a longtime Little, Brown writer and author of the current bestseller Scoundrel Time. Hellman had stood firm in the face of a congressional inquisition during the Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book she wondered "how Diana and Lionel Trilling, old, respected friends, could have come...