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INFLUENCED BY the philosopher Wittgenstein's theory of language, playwright Tom Stoppard developed Dogg, a dialect which uses the English language but assigns different meanings to each word. Stoppard teaches his audience Dogg in the first play of his pair, Dogg's Hamlet, and uses it to convey his point in the second, Cahoot's Macbeth. He writes: "the first is hardly a play at all without the second, which cannot be performed without the first...
...author of the award-winning play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" said it's important for a playwright to make all efforts to avoid autobiography, since it isn't possible to recreate a physical likeness on the stage...
WHEN THE PSYCHOANALYSTS need more support than their patients, the situation is beyond therapy. Or Beyond Therapy, if you're a playwright named Christopher Durang. If you don't want to blame the nuttiness of his comical concoction on the three years he spent in Dunster House, you can certainly pin it on grad school at Yale. That leaves open, however, the question of the play's underlying seriousness. For Beyond Therapy isn't just a comedy, though it seems like it should be. Through the words of his character Mrs. Wallace, Durang diagnoses his own problem in this play...
Kopit, who is currently working on a novel and an NBC-TV miniseries script, was active in Hasty Pudding dramatics and made his debut as a playwright at Harvard...
...Learning From Performers" program was established by the Harvard-Radcliffe Office for the Arts. Since then, it has brought to Harvard such diverse talents as playwright Arthur Miller and jazz pianist Sammy Price, who is currently offering a music course through mid-November as part...