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DIED. George Voskovec, 76, Czech-born character actor, director and playwright who was best known in the U.S. for such Broadway roles as Einstein in The Physicists (1964) and Herr Schultz in Cabaret (1968); in Pearblossom, Calif. Voskovec directed and wrote for one of Czechoslovakia's most popular and influential theater companies before his anti-Nazi productions forced him to emigrate in 1939 to the U.S., where his screen credits included Twelve Angry Men (1957) and The Spy Who Came In from the Cold...
...play was first produced in New York in 1960 when British Playwright Delaney was 21. Then, the play seemed to belong to the "kitchen sink" school of regurgitative grievances-today, it celebrates spunk. This revival, which off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater has transferred intact to Broadway's Century Theater, is taut, vital, moving and funny. An admirable cast threads reality through the needle's eye of truth...
DIED. Pamela Hansford Johnson, 69, British novelist, critic and playwright and the wife of Scientist-Novelist C.P. Snow for 30 years until his death in 1980; in London. A full-time writer from the age of 22, Johnson turned out 27 novels, the last, A Bonfire, to be published in the U.S. next month. Though her books did not sell as well as those written by Snow, her second husband, critics praised them for satirical wit and deft malice...
...direct a play, the right metaphors, emphases and designs. The only other options are to impose external ideas on the play's words--abhorrent. I think, to ART professionals and Harvard faculty alike--or not to direct at all. Some academics might dream about that--ideal communication between playwright and audience, with no interference from pesky directors--but they're thinking of lyric poetry, not drama. The modern theater needs its directors: they should be disciplined to become the text's students, not its slaves...
DIED. William Saroyan, 72, prolific Armenian-American novelist, playwright and short story writer who strove to convey the romance and vitality of American life in such works as the 1939 Pulitzer-prize winning play, The Time of Your Life, and the 1943 novel, The Hu man Comedy; of cancer; in Fresno, Calif. (see THEATER...