Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sadly, post-modern playwright Eugene Ionesco died in Paris last week. Not to worry: the Theater of the Absurd is alive and well at Harvard. An improvisational troupe, which performs every Sunday night in random locations, provides immense entertainment for beleaguered students. In keeping with the principles developed by Ionesco, Beckett, and Gide, the dramatic group refers to itself with a symbolically august title: the Undergraduate Council...
Damn fine playwright, that Shakspeare. Problem is most people today just don't seem to enjoy him. Crying shame. But how to get it across to them? People today just want to stare blankly at a movie screen for entertainment... Hang on a second--I have an idea...
Smith and Malone had been an odd couple from the start. Smith, 56, an amateur actor and playwright who turned Bell Atlantic into the most venturesome of the seven Baby Bells, had come up through the staid bureaucratic ranks of AT&T before its breakup in 1984. Malone, 52, is a strong-willed, publicity-averse entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in operations research who built the fledgling TCI into the country's largest cable operator, gaining a reputation for ruthlessness along...
...play, Hello and Goodbye, dramatist Athol Fugard asked friends at a dinner party, "Am I about to become the new South Africa's first literary redundancy?" Although he tells the story with a twinkle, that fear has hovered over him for years. In his mind he is a poetic playwright, but the world has seen him as a political, even polemic one, and his works are valued more as testimony against apartheid than for their subtle interplay of emotion and Beckettian sensitivity to the downtrodden. For many people, Fugard's dramas mattered less than the taboos they broke -- The Blood...
...What you found in each case was that he wouldpraise the play and she would write a positivepiece about a playwright," Brustein said. "Orworse, the opposite would happen...