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...moods evoked in the course of Mee's play, now running at the American Repertory Theatre. "Full Circle" is loosely based on a 13th-century Chinese fable called "The Chalk Circle," but it owes even more to the "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a play by early 20th century German playwright (and confirmed communist) Bertholt Brecht. Rather than simply updating Brecht's version for a new millennium, however, Mee undermines it by setting his story during the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...performances are all well-done, from Shultz's perfectly ditzy Dalrymple to Jokovic's young Dulle Griet who grows to love the child she cares for, maturing immeasurably in the process. Also of note is Will LeBow, who turns in a powerful performance as the eternally conflicted German playwright and artistic director Heiner Mller...
...more exciting project at the momentoshe has been commissioned to write a pilot for a risqu high school drama series slated to air on the Fox Network next year at the earliest. And although the project was originally the brainchild of a Fox producer, Rosow, a prize-winning young playwright, infuses it with a unique, artistic flavor as original as her choices at Leverettis salad...
...playwright entering the television industry, Rosow admits that she, like Alex, has feelings of insecurity. After writing two one-act plays, iSilent Nighti and iJames Dean,i which earned her top awards at the Rocky Mountain Young Playwrights Festival and the California Young Playwrights Festival, Rosow was spotted for this project by a high school classmateis father who was working at Fox. Although she signed a contract to write the pilot in the summer of 1998, management changes at the network forced her project to be put on the back burner...
...brash new playwright shocked the British theater-going public with pieces that were violent, decadent, farcical and savagely mocking of establishment values. Together with scandalous details (well, by early '60s standards anyway) of his life, such as his murder by his gay lover, Joe Orton's particular brand of theater seemed to be revolutionary and new. In the year 2000, however, the themes of Loot, with its homosexuality, constant digs at the Catholic-Protestant rivalry and even the portrayal of a highly dysfunctional family, no longer seem as radical or as ground-breaking...