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...they don't raise hackles or sympathies. Kim Stanley has little to do as Frances' eccentric mother, and Sam Shepard is saddled with the preposterous role of Frances' mysterious friend who keeps popping up all over the West Coast whenever she needs consolation. This gifted actor-playwright should have rewritten the script, or at least read it before accepting the part...
...Complexity of interpretation," the program reads, "is perhaps the highest tribute one can pay to a playwright, for it reveals the depth of his work." There exists little depth in the Leverett House production, and much, much less interpretation...
...whole business of becoming a writer is one long shot," Felicia Lamport a satirical writer and playwright said. "I got into this whole mess by just being lucky," Lamport added, explaining that in her college days she was paid $75 to write satires of the school football games...
...Hand. A Stone is an original play of the "Portrait of the Artist" genre, in which the ambition of the heroine to succeed as an artist is tied up inextricably with the ambition of the play to succeed as a work of art Playwright Gloria Parkinson '83, who came to Harvard to complete her education after years of writing directing and acting in British stage and radio has centered the play's action on the device of having two actresses play Mary--one at 19, one at 40. The character views her memories, fears and deferred dreams from both perspectives...
...Perhaps he's dead at last, or trapped in a lift somewhere or succumbed to amnesia, wandering the land with his turn-ups stuffed with ticket stubs," he muses. Birdboot is interested only in ogling young starlets and keeping smut out of the theatre. Fulfilling what must be every playwright's ultimate fantasy, Stoppard uses the self-centered antics of these two to mock the whole business of theatre criticism viciously. In the process, he produces an extremely funny play...