Word: playwrighting
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...Shepard, better known as a playwright than as an actor, successfully portrays Cal's violent transition from skeptic to zealot. Shepard's brooding, understated intensity adds a dash of noir to the film...
...allow you merely to watch, as though you were sitting, nearly anesthitized, in front of your TV, murmuring jingles. Shaffer's out to drain you, to wipe you out, to leave you limp with exhaustion--yet glowing with an odd exhilaration when the lights go up. Fully recognizing the playwright's aims Pillinger uses quicksilver pacing and gives Equus a visceral energy particularly consuming within the intimate confines of the Dunster House dining hall...
Hugh Leonard, Irish playwright, on why he likes America: "It is the only part of the world that hasn't become Americanized...
...this does little more than elegantly demonstrate a truth about ourselves. By anticipating and reconstructing the action before us, we become Pinter's partners in chess. But it is the playwright's job to be more than a play-mate. He should tell us that we only live once and should therefore sleep with our best friends' wives, or let us know that it is wrong to manipulate friendships by manipulating facts. Pinter has laid the groundwork for such conclusions, but we still await them...
...PLAYWRIGHT. "We are beginning to have real freedom of speech in China." That remark by Tsao Yu, 70, the head of the Chinese Dramatists' Association and one of the country's best-known playwrights, is an exaggeration. There is still considerable supervision of what is written and published in China. But Chinese dramatists have been persistently bold since the Western-style art form was restored in 1979. In the past two years, dozens of plays have criticized China's shortcomings, stressed the personal hardships caused by political turmoil and savagely lampooned leaders who were corrupt or incompetent...