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...Playwright Arthur L. Kopit '59 will speak to undergraduates as part of Harvard and Radcliffe's 11-year-old "Learning From Performers" program...
...many Adams House residents, A Comedy of Errors conjures up a playwright named Bill and a river named Avon...
...Some playwrights storm to greatness, some proclaim their devotion to great virtue, and some achieve majesty by all the while seeming to seek after something smaller. Athol Fugard uses deceptively simple language and stories to explore vividly specific individuals, yet he makes every wrong step between them seem a natural metaphor for some larger collision of mankind. He knows that the domestic quarrel is the central tragedy of any age. It is this pained acuity about the buffeting nature of daily life, even more than his passionate denunciation of the social system in his native South Africa, that makes Fugard...
With Wetherby, David Hare, a reknowned playwright in England, an experienced stage director of his own works, and author of Plenty, has entered the realm of movies with ease: his direction always illuminates his script. Never slow, the screenplay delivers equal amounts of disdain and understanding for the overexposed minds of Hare's compatriots. Hare's jabs, though, are the most fun, as they make for thrilling moments of silly bickering and academic idiocy--one invited dinner guest keeps insisting "Define your terms!" His characters are appealing--when they aren't incensed suicides--no matter how Hare intends otherwise. Some...
...American problem. Segregating it from the rest of American life, treating it as an ill-kept secret that can be either ignored or rationalized away, is as damaging and insidious as segregation itself. "Crime is the same for all of us," says the noted black playwright Charles Fuller, author of A Soldier's Play. "We cannot abrogate our role as participants in American life...