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...Come to the River is set to an original text by British Playwright Edward Bond. The principal themes-the evils of fascism and the brotherhood of the masses-are ones that Henze has previously explored in such vocal works as the Essay on Pigs (1968) and El Cimarrón (1969-70), written in Cuba. "New museums, opera houses and premieres are not necessary," Henze declared in 1967. "What is necessary is. . . the greatest work of art of mankind: the world revolution...
...often been said that if Shakespeare were alive today he would be not a playwright but a film maker. Case in point: Henry V. With its sprawling dramatic structure, a dozen "locations," some 40 speaking parts and a huge, climactic battle scene, Henry V just about qualifies as Shakespeare's epic moviescript. SEE the lords of two great nations exchange nasty taunts and arm for Armageddon...
...Gershwin-George S. Kaufman collaboration disappeared. More than a half-century passes. Enter Marjorie Samoff and Eric Salzman, looking for the right play to open their newly formed American Music Theater Festival. They pieced Band together with the help of the late Ira Gershwin and Anne Kaufman Schneider, the playwright's daughter. It opened last week in Philadel phia with a cast led by Saturday Night Live Veteran Bill Irwin, 34, a practiced stage clown. "It's a pretty garbled satire," admits Irwin, "but it has a wonderful thrust." The Inquirer critic liked Irwin and the rest...
Strindberg has been an inspiration for Bergman ever since he first read the playwright's works as a boy of twelve. For theater, radio and television he has mounted more than a dozen Strindberg plays. Three times he has staged A Dream Play, in 1970 refining the work's surreal sprawl into a spare "chamber play" like After...
...original script of Spring Awakening, written by the German playwright Franz Wedekind, is a brilliant presentation of adolescent sexuality and societal oppression which is at once melodramatic, satirical and tragic. Director Paul Warner's sensitivity to both the theatrical and human dimensions of the script is reflected, at times brilliantly, in his adaptation of the play for Harvard Summer Theatre...