Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always nervous when I hear my own plays," confessed Lillian Hellman, 70, who gritted her way through an evening of Hellman read by the likes of Christopher Plummer, Mildred Natwick, and Jane Fonda. The New York City tribute to the playwright benefited the Committee for Public Justice, a civil liberties organization she founded in 1970. Noting that friends she had not seen in 20 years had called up asking for tickets, the author of The Little Foxes and The Children's Hour greeted the occasion with typical hauteur. "I'm appalled," she laughed. "Appalled that anyone would think...
Wanda (Barbara Montgomery) devotes herself to reminiscences of President Kennedy, whom she adored and still mourns. In the hands of Playwright Patrick, those are still extremely poignant memories. Sparger (Don Parker) is a homosexual actor from the off-off-Broadway café scene, and he provides acerbic comic relief. Mark (Michael Sacks) is a pill-popping veteran of Viet Nam trying to sort out the dubious good from the known evil of the war. Rona (Kaiulani Lee) is the bruised child of Selma, Ala., and Woodstock, and Carla (Shirley Knight) is an ex-go-go dancer who wanted...
...scatological obsessions in playwright Howard O'Brien's script are sort of dull, but the characters that lack them tend to buckle under familiar interpretations. O'Brien fills the play's most decrepit role as Old Man Boyle, who blathers sporadically about the 20 pounds of crap in his bowels, his putrid liver, leaden legs, rotting teeth, and sparse hair. Perched in his wheelchair, between the park bench and the garbage pail, he seems content to survey the progressive dissolution of others with a complicit smile that might be meant for a slyer old man, Beckett...
...playwright's fancy was taken by the fact that three revolutionaries of vastly differing temperaments and persuasions lived contiguously in Zurich during World War I. They were Tristan Tzara, Rumanian poet and founder of Dadaism, James Joyce and Lenin. There is no evidence that they ever met each other, but in Travesties, they do. Stoppard was further intrigued by a suit filed against Joyce by one Henry Carr for the price of a pair of trousers. A minor British consular official, Carr had purchased the trousers to play Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest for a Joyce...
...found them, in turn, unbearably clubby. He decided to go into television. "I played the classics," he says. "I thought it was the way to build a reputation, but the audience got tired of me." By 1967 Wood was tired too. "I thought I'd never find a playwright whose work I liked." Then he was sent Teeth, a television comedy by an unknown named Tom Stoppard. Wood played a cuckolded dentist who turned his rival's teeth green. Shortly afterward, Wood starred on Broadway in Stoppard's first stage hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...