Word: playwrighting
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...easy to take pot shots at the show, but it is hard to sit through it. The kindest thing that can be said is that the play could have been good--and that some of the playwright's funny lines did not get lost...
...playwright said he wrote M. Butterfly at a time when he questioned the implications of his theatrical self-segregation and became interested in defining the "mainstream" in American culture...
...process of reconciling ethnic identity with the pressures of assimilation is an "ongoing" one, Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang said at a speech in Sever last night, pointing to phases of "evolution" in his own work...
Referring to Moscow's evident relief at the dramatic turn in Prague, playwright Vaclav Havel, leader of Czechoslovakia's human rights movement, said wryly, "We cannot rule out the situation that all occupiers of this country will have renounced the occupation, and only the occupied will still stand behind it." Added Havel, who is known for his absurdist dramas: "It is like something out of my own plays...
...Boseman and lena, directed by Broadway actor Tazewell Thompson, the theater presents a harsh but realistic look at one night in the lives of two wandering South Africans who have been evicted from their home by the authorities. Written in 1967, the play originates from acclaimed playwright Athol Fugard's own experiences with the homeless and oppressed in South Africa...