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...contemplation of this act, and the decision to go through with it, that provides Talmage with the framework for his play. Perhaps despairing of handling the glittering literary cast that thronged through his characters' lives, the playwright turns everyone from Virginia Woolf to Carrington's sailor-lover into throwaway lines. As a theatrical contrivance this works amusingly. But it is one thing to simplify, for dramatic convenience, the structure of historical lives and quite another to oversimplify their emotional tenor. In Talmage's hands, the brilliant Strachey becomes a fussy queen; the dangerously unstable Carrington, a ditsy...
...PLAYWRIGHT Luigi Pirandello shattered the stage conventions of an era with his 1921 masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author. He held up the magic mirror of theatre to theatre itself, thus reversing Shakespeare's dictum that "all the world's a stage." Pirandello's six characters broke down the barriers separating art from ordinary life and, in the process, exposed the inadequacies of both...
Such figures as East German Playwright Heiner Müller, Argentine Film Maker Edgardo Cozarinsky and American Composer Philip Glass are contributing their talents. The plot, if it may be called that, embraces history, from mythological Greece to the distant future, and has as its centerpiece the violent, haunting images of the American Civil War. For the mastermind of it all, Texas-born Robert Wilson, 42, it is the boldest venture yet in an avant-garde theatrical career that has specialized in audacity. It is the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, a multimillion-dollar...
Dutka has collected some show business memories: "Cats Director Trevor Nunn giving me a mesmerizing reading of T.S. Eliot's 'Grizabella, the Glamour Cat'; Paul Newman letting me take a rare close look at his souped-up Volkswagen; South African Playwright Athol Fugard sitting in the Algonquin Hotel lobby and analyzing the tragedy of apartheid; Robert Redford asking for my opinions on President Reagan, the press and living in New York City before launching into a discussion of directing in Hollywood...
...playwright sometimes substituted repetition for inspiration in his prolonged dying fall. He could seem like a drunk at a party who makes the other guests linger while he tries to find the point of a tale that is too long in the telling. But in recounting how Josie Hogan (Kate Nelligan) and James Tyrone Jr. (Ian Bannen) live out their 18-hour love affair (all the way from reluctant acknowledgment that it exists to equally reluctant renunciations), O'Neill created one of his most moving statements about how reality and dreams betray each other...