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...create New England town meetings in historic Fanueil Hall in July and August, with student actors arguing the issues as the delegates did in 1787. Although participants will work from an outline, there will be room for improvisation. "We don't want the audience to go to sleep," explains Playwright Mark Giesser. Finally, on Constitution Day, Sept. 17, the Constitution itself -- the U.S.S. Constitution, that is -- will leave her < berth and be pulled by tugs to the center of Boston harbor, where she will be saluted by every ship in port...
...Loyola College in Baltimore, a well-known husband-and-wife team, Bob and Dolores Hope, was awarded honorary doctoral degrees -- his 53rd, in acknowledgment of which he dropped a chestnut: "Now that I am a doctor, at least I can get on the golf course on Wednesdays." At Vassar, Playwright John Guare and his spouse Designer Adele Chatfield-Taylor both spoke, after flipping a coin to see who would go first. (She did.) In a boisterous, though notably erudite, bit of counterpoint to the family theme, graduates of Harvard's School of Public Health tossed into the air hundreds...
Athol Fugard's great gift as a playwright has been an almost journalistic evocation of the distorting impact of apartheid on blacks and whites in his native South Africa, coupled with a lyric ability to lift those observations to the level of metaphor. It is not enough for an artist to be right-minded on even the most potent political issues of his day. To earn a lasting place in literature, to rank with Ibsen or Shaw or Brecht, he must also demonstrate subtlety of craft, power of language and insight into character -- and probably must reach beyond his immediate...
When she was 14 Litt "just kind of decided to write a play." Completed when she was 16, the play, Epiphany, won the Young Playwright's Festival run by the Circle in the Square Repertory Theater in New York City...
...epic play, setting works in an unfamiliar and unsympathetic context allows the audience to absorb the message of the works rather than getting absorbed in the character and stories. If Andrei Serban's seminew production of Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan shows anything, it's that a playwright's intentions can be taken far beyond the level of good taste and still work as great theater. Assuming of course, that your idea of great theater is irony applied with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer...