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Nunn and Co-Director John Caird, 33, decided on Nicholas Nickleby and commissioned Playwright David Edgar, 33, to write the adaptation. Edgar, whose Destiny was produced at the Aldwych in 1977 and whose Mary Barnes was staged at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater last year, recalls that "it was a twofold challenge: to convert a rambling, complexly plotted novel into a play in a few months, and to respond to ideas from the two directors, from Designer John Napier, from Composer Stephen Oliver and all those actors." Working communally?an R.S.C. tradition exemplified by Peter Brook's 1970 production...
...film might have been made in the 1940s, when "regional" writers were charting new corners of the American subconscious and film makers like Frank Borzage and Clarence Brown were spring-cleaning old work clothes and folkways. If there is an intrusive touch of modernism, it comes from Shepard, the playwright whose Buried Child and The West tunnel into the dreams of the rural working class, and then explode them. As the haunted "raggedy man," Shepard lurks at the edges of the film's life, giving it texture and menace and meaning. But Spacek is the center. Until...
...raffish and fantastic crew that I have met yet and even I-excessively broadminded as I am-feel somewhat shocked by the goings-on." That was how Tennessee Williams described his Provincetown acquaintances in a letter to his friend, Novelist Donald Windham, in the summer of 1940. Now the playwright has returned to that scene. But somehow that raffish and fantastic crew has fled his memory, and the characters on the stage of Manhattan's Jean Cocteau Repertory would not shock a novitiate...
...their laps judging you." That the judgments are nearly always ecstatic does not really help. She seems uncomfortable with the fact she was praised so highly (she received an Obie award) for her rousing performance last winter in a Public Theater musical, Alice in Concert, for which the playwright, her friend Elizabeth Swados, was roundly panned. "It's insane to have winners and losers in art. We live in a society plagued by sports mania. To say that one performance is better than another is just plain dumb. You wouldn't think of comparing two colors in a painting, would...
DIED. Anita Loos, 88, pert, witty screenwriter, playwright and novelist who became an international celebrity after the publication of her 1925 spoof of sex and materialism, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; in New York City. A former child actress, Loos sold her first film scenario to D.W. Griffith in 1912, thus beginning a four-decade Hollywood career that ranged from devising captions for silent films (a form she invented) to creating sparkling dialogue for such movies as San Francisco (1936) and The Women (1939). A diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.), tirelessly convivial figure who considered boredom "a more acute pain than...