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...widely reported? Will masses of readers notice, as they did the recent accusations? And, of course, Kaavya’s alleged indiscretions would have had a more limited impact if they had occurred before the age of blogs and mass media. In the words of Yasmina Reza, a French playwright who wrote an excellent piece about the Kundera affair for Le Monde, “one can broom someone’s entire life in 30 seconds” these days...
...that the reports were "a nasty and incomprehensible surprise" - not least because the accused spy was nearly sentenced to death - but that it would not alter his views of the writer's work. "Everything that the writer lives through can somehow reflect in his work," wrote Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima, a contemporary of Kundera's in a Czech newspaper. "Perhaps only a subconscious need to come to terms with [an experience] can ignite the creation of great work. That is a paradox of creation and, in effect, of life itself." Speaking to TIME, Klima added, however, that while...
...does anyone fight?” It’s a question as old as warfare. With the assistance of arward-winning playwright Ellen McLaughlin, students at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre have been tackling this question, drawing on extensive field research and the themes surrounding war since the ancient Greeks. “Ajax in Iraq,” McLaughlin’s new original play being performed at the Zero Arrow Theatre this weekend, is the culmination of their studies, exploring the post-traumatic stress associated with the hardships accounted...
...A.R.T.’s aim of advancing the art of dramatic theater has led to remarkably innovative, if not occasionally risky, work. In 1984, a production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” damaged the theatre’s relationship with the playwright when stage directions were interpreted too liberally. Paulus plans to continue and re-invigorate this mission of pushing theater to its boundaries.“I’m interested in bashing apart any limitations of what that theater should be,” Paulus says.As a director, Paulus has bashed...
...British playwright Alan Ayckbourn has long been the theater's champion daredevil, a man who never saw a stage stunt he wouldn't tackle. One of his early works, The Norman Conquests, was a cycle of three plays that recounted the events of a weekend from three different parts of the same house. One Ayckbourn play moves backward in time. Another conflates all the action in a house, from living room to attic, into a single stage space. His ingenious, nearly unstageable Intimate Exchanges has 16 permutations, depending on the choices made by characters at key points in the action...