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...addition to being a vocal environmentalist, Saro-Wiwa was an accomplished poet, playwright, publisher and father of four. As a young person, Saro-Wiwa experienced and wrote about the horror of Nigeria's civil wars and tribal conflicts, leading him to advocate nonviolent protest against the military junta...
...play was a true story written by a Jewish kid from Jersey, the lead actor was Jewish, as were four of the actresses. The offensive "glasses usage" was scripted in ink by an established playwright and as a director I tried to remain faithful to the text while showcasing some of the talented actors and actresses on campus...
...Roof, with its layers of grandiloquent Southern mendacity, might serve as an emblem for the life of its creator. The playwright with the arresting name of Tennessee was born plain Thomas; Williams wreathed himself in beguiling inventions and evasions. Some of these were the by-product of a well-meaning gentility, as in his and his family's attempts to veil from the world the tragedy of his sister Rose, whose schizophrenia ended catastrophically in a lobotomy. Some were solitary acts of cool calculation, as when he lopped three years off his age to render himself eligible for a young...
...what will be a two-volume portrait. It tracks Williams from 1911--when he was born, in St. Louis, Missouri, to an indrawn, alcoholic father who worked most of his life for a shoe company and an outgoing, garrulous mother of frustrated social ambitions--until 1945, when the playwright achieved his first great success with The Glass Menagerie...
Within his plays, Williams' pursuit of the poetic extends beyond the dialogue. Is there another American playwright whose stage directions are so revealing, so entertaining, so rich? Suddenly Last Summer calls for a garden that is "more like a tropical jungle, or forest, in the prehistoric age of giant fern-forests when living creatures had flippers turning to limbs and scales to skin." The Glass Menagerie asks for light "such as El Greco's, where the figures are radiant in atmosphere that is relatively dusky." If demands like these normally would appear affected or ostentatious, Williams makes them look like...