Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Symbolically, this spells the fall of the British Empire. But the sly, elusive, opinionated, middle-aged minx who occupies these quarters is not about to let the Establishment side down. Mrs. Rogers' husband is frequently away-if he exists. The playwright is ambiguous. She craves the company of a virile male. Eugene, an Irish bill collector, fills the bill, and she collects him in an obliquely Pinteresque seduction scene. She clothes and feeds him and teaches him manners rather after the fashion of a reverse Pygmalion. Above all, she teaches him that, in England, veneer is worth far more...
...CONTRACTOR. The mysterious art of the commonplace continues to fascinate British Playwright David Storey and his growing band of devotees. With this play he may add fresh laurels to the New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards that he won with Home and The Changing Room...
Some of The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin is undeniably opaque, irritating, pretentious and self-indulgent. Few playwrights would have the nerve to stitch together a dramatic conglomerate as Wilson has done, containing portions of his previous works such as The King of Spain, The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud and Deafman Glance. But considering its sprawling length, Stalin is remarkably free from boredom. This is a token of its visual mesmerism and incessant variety. One moment the stern, noble mien of the aged Sigmund Freud will appear as he walks about the stage on his wife...
...York City's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine was honoring a prodigal son: Episcopalian-born Tennessee Williams, 59. The first recipient of the cathedral's centennial medal acclaiming "the Artist as Prophet," Williams was lauded as "the foremost playwright of our age." But about returning to the fold, a whimsical Williams was equivocal. Born in the shadow of a grandfather who, at the age of 97, was ordained a "High Episcopalian" minister, Williams had allowed himself to be converted to Roman Catholicism during the '60s. "What does it matter, anyhow?" he asked, adding that...
...four principal characters in Creeps are victims of cerebral palsy, as is David E. Freeman, the playwright...