Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Playwright Barker, one of Britain's premier ideological artists, gives this outspoken woman a subtle, likable enemy in the person of the ruling doge, glitteringly played by Frank Langella. Also arrayed against her are a female critic and, on occasion, her own lover, himself an artist of more modest and domestically inclined talents. While the parallels with contemporary culture wars are obvious -- and reinforced by the use of electronically jazzed-up classical music during scene changes -- the text is short on plot and long on debate, to a degree that makes Shaw look taciturn. In touching on many themes...
...resembles rock video. There is little plot and less sequence: it is hard to distinguish the present from the profuse flashbacks, yet it doesn't seem to matter. This may not be a cohesive play, but Frank Pugliese, 29, has the distinctive voice and emotive power of a true playwright. His unifying theme is race. Before the action begins, the boys have fatally stomped a black man who invaded their turf to buy a sandwich. They seem capable of redemption: the brightest (Adrian Pasdar) falls passionately if shamefacedly for a black woman (Cynthia Martells). But in this hateful world...
...script by playwright and television writer Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) focuses on the struggle between the two central characters: Johnson, played by James Garner, and Kravis, played by Jonathan Pryce, who starred in the Broadway hit musical Miss Saigon. People familiar with Wall Street will have serious problems with these two pieces of casting because Garner doesn't behave much like Johnson and Price doesn't look anything like Kravis...
THEATER A vivid, visceral playwright debuts in Aven'U Boys...
...story is unfolded by Helen in flashbacks after Edward's exile to a Greek island and mysterious death. Her listener, a young professor of theater and would-be biographer, is also the playwright's unacknowledged son from a previous marriage, desperate to know and not to know the father being revealed...