Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CALLING FOR HELP, by Peter Handke, and VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY: A TRAGEDY, by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the most acclaimed poet of soviet Russia until he killed himself in the early '30s. Unfortunately, he evidently wasn't much of a playwright. The Handke doesn't even bear thinking about, although Handke obviously expected it did. On the other hand, if you go this Saturday and bring a Harvard I.D., they'll let you in at half-price: there's a bright side to everything. 8:30 p.m. at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...
...fell asleep while he was reading a script to her. His third and last wife never made that mistake. Born Hazel Tharsing, Carlotta Monterey met her fourth husband when she played in The Hairy Ape. Once her eyes, "like wet grapes," fixed on him, she blessed and cursed the playwright with all the attention a writer could dream...
...Neill is uneven, and much of his work has not worn well-the prostitutes with hearts of gold, the barroom philosophers marinated in Nietzsche, the neoclassical alas-and-alackers of his Greek-facade tragedies. In experiments like The Great God Brown, O'Neill aspired to be the playwright-as-thinker and failed. It was with the family that he could do almost nothing right in life and almost nothing wrong in the theater. In Long Day's Journey into Night-not only O'Neill's best play but the best play in the history...
Down through the centuries, no civet has been found to sweeten the toxic war between the sexes. Every seeming peace is breached: no cease-fire is ever signed. Perhaps that is why the theme has exerted such a powerful hold on the imaginations of dramatists, for the playwright must rely above all things on conflict. And the scourging struggle between a man and a woman whose love has turned to hate is probably without equal...
While English Playwright E.A. Whitehead has not written anything that closely approximates the caliber of such works, his two plays, Alpha Beta and now The Foursome, show that he is obsessed by the battle of the sexes, and that he has a biting flair for it. Alpha Beta depicted a working-class British couple shedding blood over a bloodless marriage. In The Foursome, which was written before Alpha Beta, Whitehead focuses on four Liverpool youngsters barely out of their teens. In the present off-Broadway production, the setting and characters have been shifted to the outskirts of Galveston, Texas...