Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Museum Piece. The initiation rite carries the cachet of having been quilled in the 17th century by the Earl of Rochester (Tynan unearthed parts of it in the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Other notable contributors include 19th century French Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine, French Playwright Eugene Ionesco and Tynan himself. As director, Tynan chose another Calcutta alumnus, Clifford Williams, formerly of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...those laws is surprise. Unless the playwright indulges in revisionist history, the element of surprise is missing. Rolf Hockhuth's argument in The Deputy that Pope Pius XII bore a greater responsibility than Hitler for the deaths of 6 million Jews was distinctly surprising, and while it failed to convince, it certainly contributed to the success of the play. No such element of surprise exists in I Have a Dream and Billy Dee Williams' performance has a snake oil slickness that robs it of the craggy integrity that Hal Holbrook brought to Mark Twain, or Henry Fonda...
American regional theater has acquired everything that Ford Foundation money could buy. Marvelously designed new playhouses in charming settings. The best of British directors. The most reputable of Broadway actors. Everything, that is, except an honest-to-God native playwright...
...after a lifetime's apprenticeship in obscurity, Jones has suddenly found himself beset by fame. "This has been a weird year," he says, and the coming year will be even weirder as he develops, willy-nilly, into the latest candidate for great American playwright...
...most of Strehler's career has been spent in the theater. When he was rehearsing Bertolt Brecht's The Three penny Opera at the Piccolo Teatro in 1955, the playwright showed up, hung around after opening night and finally handed Strehler a message typed on an envelope. It asked Strehler to be the artistic custodian of Brecht's works, not just in Italy but in all of Europe. Brecht died the next year, and Strehler has carried on. His timeless, yet utterly contemporary staging of The Life of Galileo is considered a classic, used as guidance even...