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...bring notable, talented people here [from Romania]," said RSH President Horiade Gavrilitza, who mentioned playwright Eugene Ionesco as a possible participant in the future...
...days that shook the world, dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was swept out of political detention into the presidency of Czechoslovakia. Last week Havel delivered to a joint meeting of Congress an extraordinary speech about democratic ideals, the rebirth of the human spirit and America's role in the post-cold...
...with a different set of expectations and a little patience, Straightlines is an enjoyably different and sometimes extremely creative performance. The purpose of art, is has been said, is to disturb, not reassure. Tan will not reassure us with convention. This is not a "regular play," and if the playwright leaves us shifting in our seats and glancing at one another, maybe it is we who should readjust...
...then there was . . . But the catalog is endless. Events of the past week can only lend credence to playwright Henrik Ibsen's observance, "Those heroes of finance are like beads on a string -- when one slips off, the rest follow." Is there any possibility of knotting that string? Or is scandal as much a part of the market as the NASDAQ? Can the greedy be saved from themselves? Or does Midas play as big a role as Oedipus in the human psyche...
Still waiting--No word yet on whether Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president will speak at Harvard's Commencement this June. Harvard extended the formal invitation a few weeks ago, but has not yet gotten a reply. Now, it looks like they may have to wait quite a while. According to a U.S. State Department spokesperson contacted two days ago, Havel's office has been inundated with speaking offers--some 45 for May and June alone. Meanwhile, the spokesperson said, Havel's administration has not been too quick to respond to any of them. "They've been planning them 24 hours...