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This danger appears in subtle ways. When one student called the ART box office to ask what Endgame was about, she was told that it was a play about the life of survivors after a nuclear war. Now, that may be true. But nothing in the playwright's stage directions would have told you that, and Beckett clearly meant to make a more universal statement on life...
complete parody of the play," read the judgment. "Anybody who cares for the work couldn't fail to be disgusted." It was the kind of criticism that theater people dread, but there was worse. The statement was stapled to the playbill, and it was written by the playwright...
...letter to Brustein, Rosset had also questioned the casting of black actors in two of the play's four roles. Last week Actors' Equity, the stage performer's union, denounced such objections. Said the executive secretary of Equity, Alan Eisenberg: "We've got to raise the consciousness of the playwright to the concept of nontraditional casting...
Whitemore's use of soliloquies in a realistic framework brings his competence as a playwright into serious question. The tone and execution of the play strive for realism, but Whitemore undercuts it with the formal monologue--one of the most contrived devices in the dramatist's handbook. Simple reminiscences intended to add dimension to the characters, these solo speeches instead subtract from the play's impact...
...choreographs, Mr. B. must deal with Capezio salesmen, the costume shop, injured performers, the installation of a gigantic set, his own deepening weariness. But the old ebullience flares. He is outraged by the attempt on the Pope's life, scornful of the play Amadeus, deciding that the playwright, Peter Shaffer "will be sorry in heaven" for his work. Heaven, in fact, must have been an easy transition for Mr. B. Confounded by his problems, he consoled himself by announcing that on opening night, "Tchaikovsky will probably be there with his entourage: Borodin, Moussorgsky, Cui, Balakirev, Rimsky- Korsakov." From the evidence...