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Kenen Professor of English William Alfred, who moonlights as a professional playwright, heartily endorses anything by Grace Paley. Walker Percy, or Eudora Welty. And for a change of pace from those authors. Alfred suggests reading from another multifaceted Harvard man. Brad Leithauser '78, whose recently published poems in Hundreds of Fireflies were primarily written during his stints here and at the Law School...
DIED. Peter Weiss, 65, reclusive, German-born playwright who wrote the shocking tour de force, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964); of a heart attack; in Stockholm. Tormented by guilt for having escaped the Holocaust and convinced that the modern world had gone mad, Weiss, who was a naturalized Swedish citizen, created polemical works of intense graphic imagery meant to jolt audiences out of their complacency. In Marat/Sade he explored clashing views of society: De Sade's celebration...
...Frogs opens on Dionysus and her servant, Xanthias, planning to depart for Hades. Depressed by an apathetic world, in Aristophanes' original they wish to bring back the playwright Euripides to wake the world with witty satire. Once in the underworld Dionysus realizes that the true artist. Aeschylus, can contribute much more passion and poetry than the humorist and decides that he will save the world by returning this writer to life. The modernized version replaces Euripides with George Bernard Shaw, and Aeschylus with William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes...
Enter, stage right, the young and oh-so-handsome Clifford Anderson (played by the young and oh-so-handsome Christopher Reeve), an aspiring playwright and adoring former student of Sidney's at Stonybrook. Clifford has written a play called Deathtrap, a sure-fire smash which turns his professor green with envy, and he brings it to the Hamptons for some polishing up. He also brings his outline and all his notes. No other copy of the play exists (the xerox is "on the fritz"); he lives alone; no one else has read his incipient masterpiece. Maces and daggers loom ominously...
...fizzle toward the end), and some snappy dialogue, it makes a fair attempt at matching the wit and elegance of Shaffer's play. Tendorp, the psychic, adds a nice comic touch by dropping by to see Sidney at all the wrong times, and prophesying ominously about a dangerous playwright named "Smith-Collona." Cannon is suitably daffy as the gushing Myra, and Reeve is, well, a hunk. Caine, who played Reeve's younger man to Laurence Olivier in Sleuth, undoubtedly steals the show. Biting and demonic one moment, vulnerable and pitiful the next, he's really the only actor...