Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program distributed at performances of Club Venus, director Shelagh Kenney promises that student playwright Gabrielle Burton will "explore themes of racial and social interaction, ethnic preoccupations, and the resultant effect of a system of extreme social options." It is a lofty aspiration, but one which Kenney's production realizes with remarkable frequency...
...fifties Americana, they wend their way through the kaleidoscopic landscape of "Terra Incognita," a territorial hybrid of the 19th century African Congo and the Land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles' acid-crazed 1967 animation, "Yellow Submarine." This land is to be imagined rather than perceived: at the playwright's behest the set is relatively sparse...
This is essentially a textual flaw; Fox's rendering of the play is extremely faithful to the playwright's vision. The set is minimal but artful; all the stage directions are followed closely with one exception; the performers effectively adhere to their particular temperaments as defined by the playwright; and the speech is simple, plain and relatively unaffected...
Actor B.D. Wong and M. Butterfly playwright David Henry Hwang are key proponents of nents of Equity's attack on Miss Saigon casting. According to Equity News, the pair envision the casting of minority actors in minority roles as the first step zoward non-traditional casting across the board...
...casting of an English actor in a Eurasian part affronted some Asian Americans, including playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). Last week the board of Actors' Equity -- a union representing 40,000 U.S. performers and maintaining a reciprocal arrangement with its British counterpart -- refused to grant Pryce permission to appear on Broadway because he is not Asian. So far, so predictable: Mackintosh was expected to take the matter to arbitration and win his case, while the protesters reaped some sympathy and publicity...