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ELEEMOSYNARY. Playwright Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods) encapsulates feminism through three generations of strong-minded women in a deft, dark off- Broadway comedy...
...Prague apartment of Vaclav Havel had been filled with friends welcoming home Czechoslovakia's most famous dissident playwright. Only that morning Havel, 52, had been released from prison after serving half of an eight-month term for inciting antigovernment demonstrations. Most of the ) visitors had left, when the doorbell rang. The erect, sad-eyed man in the hallway seemed like a ghostly apparition, his palms outstretched almost sheepishly and on his face a mysterious but familiar half-smile. The apartment fell silent. Then someone murmured, "Dubcek." Said Alexander Dubcek, hero of 1968's Prague Spring: "I had to come...
TIME's Walter Isaacson and Michal Donath were the only journalists present as the two men talked, sitting side by side, Havel animated and excited, Dubcek reserved and stiff. "I was expecting every miracle today except that I would meet you," said the playwright. The aging politician recalled one of Havel's plays, though none have been performed in Czechoslovakia since 1968. Havel leaped up and gathered a stack of foreign editions that had been smuggled into the country. "I will sign them for you in green ink because green is the color of hope, and I am an optimist...
ELEEMOSYNARY. Playwright Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods) encapsulates feminism through three generations of strong-minded women in a deft, dark off- Broadway comedy...
...amusing self-awareness. He believes that comedy is the "highest expression of truth" and, conversely, that the funniest things are frequently the truest. This makes for considerable humor arising from grim situations. Moreover, Parent's wanderlust means a frequent change of scenery and a liberating sense that, as the playwright Tom Stoppard put it, every exit is an entrance somewhere else...