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...midwives did not examine their pregnant patients. The interns did examine theirs-with unwashed hands, shortly after dissecting corpses. The agency of infection is clear, and so is the stormy response of complacently entrenched ignorance. In the title role, Jeffrey DeMunn is prickly, volatile and poignant. Playwright Sackler reanimates the theme of his The Great White Hope: a man who defies the norm and opens society's eyes may well be crushed by society's iron fist. -By T.E.Kalem
...story goes that in 1934, while a guest at San Francisco's Palace Hotel, Publisher Bennett Cerf was informed that "a young man who says he is the world's greatest author is in the lobby." Replied Cerf unhesitatingly: "Tell Mr. Saroyan to come right up." Playwright William Saroyan was still rambunctiously self-assured a few days before cancer killed him last week in Fresno, Calif. "Everybody has got to die," he said, "but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case...
...impressionistic paean celebrated "the superficial truth of streets and structures, the trivial truth of reality." Subsequent early stories offered the kind of warming uplift that a Depression-stricken nation wanted to hear. But there was a scratchier side to this earthy romanticism. In 1940 the playwright rejected a Pulitzer Prize for the Broadway hit The Time of Your Life on the grounds that business could not judge art. As a Hollywood scenarist he squabbled with studio heads and cut a raffish, boisterous figure Gambling and drinking contributed to the breakup of his marriage and the decline of his fortunes...
...series of prologues for each act. As Tony Shalhoub's Figaro recounts his life-history as a swashbuckler, gambler, poet, doctor, barber--an account filled with the sarcasm of a man hounded by a world he's sure is in the wrong--the audience recognizes the playwright behind his costume...
...FLOATING LIGHT BULB by Woody Allen A pearl of a playwright may emerge from the oyster bed of a wretched early home life. O'Neill, Williams and Miller provide eloquently autobiographical testimony to that. Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb seems distinctly autobiographical, but it is no more than a shucked oyster shell of a play...