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Though best known to the American public as Chuck Yeager, Sam Shepard has spent most of his time for the past twenty years not as an astronaut, nor as an actor, but as a playwright. And it was as a playwright that Shepard came to Boston last month to stage a production on the Loeb mainstage with Shepard's friend and collaborator avante garde director Joseph Chaikin...
...stie flas gotten more response from non-Harvard students than from actual undergraduates. After postering the Loeb and other places on campus, she says she has received calls from Harvard administrators and even a script from a senior at Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, who won the Young Playwright's Horizon Award and wants to be able to work with it at Harvard. As a result, Wang has asked William Alfred, who teachers a playwrighting course, to encourage his students to submit plays and will contact other students who have already had their plays staged...
...such Harvard playwright is senior John Farrell who has been working on his play "Seaview" for the past couple of years. This three-act work includes a trio of separate stories about personal relationships that occur at a seashore. The first act takes place at a cottage house in 1925 in Marshfield, the second at a bunker overlooking the invasion of Normandy in 1944, and the third at North Carolina's Nag's Head Beach in 1979. "The play follows the dramatic evolution of the same character of the same character type." Farrell explains, adding that the same actor will...
...been as acute as Coward, who entirely rewrote Let's Do It for his nightclub act: "Teenagers in jeans do it/ Probably we'll live to see machines do it." But that was merely Noël the singer. There was also Noël the playwright, Noël the actor, Noël the director, Noël the short-story writer, Noël the memoirist and, at the end, Sir Noël, knight of the British Empire. Yet of all his roles, Coward is likely to be remembered best as the songwriter with...
...passione is that, if it does try to reach out form beneath the superficial and cliched to point out a subtle statement, the message is buried in overkill. While the characters lives seem realistic, the happy ending strains the limits of credibility and the illusion quickly falls apart. The playwright's challenge is to make an audience chuckle and choke up in the same evening, but Passione is not an appropriate vehicle for anything except laughter and some pointed satire...