Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lack of any feeling behind all of these deceptions reflects the hollowness of Chee-Chee. In the Pirandellian wilderness of mirrors and puppets, emotion at least must be real. Artistically, it is emotion which must charge Pirandello's otherwise intellectualized prose with dramatic truth, as he well knew: the playwright needs to find the word which will be the action itself spoken, the living word that moves, the immediate expression, having the same nature as the act itself...
...success, and the two women in his life--his mother (Deborah) and his wife (Sara). It almost goes without saying that both are possessive and determined to win his favor, and that he is torn between them. The idea isn't terribly original, but, in the hands of a playwright of O'Neill's talent, the potential for good psychodrama is there. Unfortunately O'Neill never had a chance to finishMansions, and in the third (and final) draft he still seems to be struggling to put on paper the characters he envisioned. The play is full of redundant, unfocused monologues...
...music. On opening night Mick Jogger sent Kemp a basket of lilies, and the critics sent Kemp a bouquet of reviews in which outrage mingled with fascination. "I don't want to shock people," retorts Kemp. "I want to astonish them." He has been deeply influenced by French Playwright Jean Genet and Mime Marcel Marceau. "To me," says Kemp airily, "mime is not about climbing up the stairs but about what you find when...
...cast is exemplary. To cite one player would be to slight another. No one in contemporary theater orchestrates mordant laughter with a surer hand than Playwright Peter Nichols. His forked tongue darts at everything, but his compassion is deep and pure...
...acute intelligence and peculiar world-view of the man who wrote Six Characters in Search of An Author are still evident. Pirandello practically started the whole obsession with appearance-and-reality in modern drama, and this is the kind of play--a rarely performed piece by a great playwright--that the Loeb Ex is best for. At the Ex this Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m., as well as next weekend...