Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cobb Playwright Lee Blessing sees in the spikes-flying style of baseball's Ty Cobb not only the professionalization of an amiable amateur game but also the emergence of an aggressive American Century. He made that thesis work on regional stages without overburdening the life story of a hero detested by his teammates...
...Drugs, Rock & Roll Call Eric Bogosian a performance artist, monologist, short-story writer or even playwright. By whatever name, he is one of the shrewdest contemporary critics of the phony, the self-serving, the amoral and the damned. This off-Broadway collection of skits is a caustic vision of greed and substance abuse...
...South, as they try to decide whether Hannibal should run away from slavery. The central characters from A Raisin in the Sun wrestle with the same question when they debate if they should accept a white man's money in exchange for not moving into his neighborhood. The Playwright herself wonders whether she can best serve her the cause of civil rights by writing in New York or by journeying South with the Freedom Riders...
...tribute to this play's realism that the characters in these situations do not make consistent decisions; while Hannibal flees slavery, the Playwright's decision is to remain foremost a writer and not a marcher...
Another strong feature of To Be Young, Gifted, and Black is its refusal to view Hansberry's life entirely through the prism of race relations. As the script convincingly demonstrates, problems of sexuality and artistic integrity occupy the Playwright's work as frequently as racial issues. The tension between her role as Black spokesperson and her individual identity is exposed in one scene in which characters from Hansberry's past encircle her and silence her voice with their own shouts...