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...function of the avant-garde to afflict the comfortable, to , stick a rude thumb into society's eye? Maybe not. Playwright Robert Coe, who has collaborated with both Glass and Anderson, has noted that the "avant- garde performing arts just don't play by the same rules as a decade ago . . . For the first time in the history of postwar experimental performance, serious artists have ceased to assume an attitude of indifference or superiority to the culture-at-large." Perhaps as a result, popular culture is no longer indifferent to them. Observes Byrne: "In the past, traditional artists didn...
Despite its tendency to distribute awards along geopolitical lines, the Swedish Academy of Letters waited 85 years before bestowing the Nobel Prize for Literature on a black African. Yet when the laurel finally passed last week to Wole Soyinka, 52, a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, essayist and indefatigable polemicist, the justice seemed more than demographic. Discriminating theatergoers in London and New York City, as well as in Africa, have known for two decades that Soyinka is a writer worth watching and hearing. An evening in the presence of his words might bring anything: A Dance of the Forests...
Most artists would prefer to be remembered for their work, but some have such a gift for performing the role of celebrity that they make themselves equally memorable for their semiprivate lives. Tennessee Williams was once described as the most famous playwright in the world; he remarked ruefully that he would rather be known as the best. In his final years Williams' talent faded, but his persona, a blend of alcoholic misbehavior, grandiose overstatement, poetic sensitivity and terminally naughty wit, raged on. To his indignation and amusement, the notoriety transcended the art. Last year brought two scandal- tinged biographies...
...Broadway show was assembled by Ray Stricklyn, who also enacts Williams, and Charlotte Chandler, who visited the playwright for her book of interviews The Ultimate Seduction. The result is a hybrid of the public and the private man: Stricklyn speaks in the guise of Williams addressing a reporter, so his rambling 90-min. monologue is unmistakably a performance. Even so, there are passages of naked confession. The time is Williams' declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks...
Jonathan S. Tolins' name will appear in lights this fall on theater marquees, programs and announcements ranging from the Hasty Pudding to the Loeb Mainstage to Boston's New Ehrlich Theater. Playwright, actor and director, this Harvard junior pushes himself to experience everything associated with the dramatic arts--be it writing musical comedy or tragic drama, performing bizarre caricatures and serious dramatic roles, or directing conventionally staged and avant-garde performances...