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...eyes are so swollen. I had too much vino last night," complained Playwright Tennessee Williams. With a new novel, Moise and the World of Reason, just off the presses and a play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, opening on Broadway in August, Williams had an excuse for his revels. Last week he got together with the cast at the first rehearsal. Written two years ago while Williams was in Tangier, Battery Sign casts Anthony Quinn as a Mexican street musician, Katy Jurado as his wife and Claire Bloom as his downtown diversion. "I have never had a part before that...
...Among the nonjournalistic winners: Playwright Edward Albee for his drama Seascape; Novelist Michael Shaara for his book The Killer Angels; Biographer Robert A. Caro for his epic The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York; and Historian Dumas Malone for his first five volumes of Jefferson and His Times...
...would be quite wrong to think of The Taking of Miss Janie as a dirge. Black Playwright Ed Bullins often uses a party as the central structure of his plays, and he does it again here. Even when it is slightly sick, a Bullins party jives. The people talk a vivid street idiom with the fluent opulence of jazz. Their moods dance. They make hot, sly, funny, drunken, sexy scenes together that have the cumulative impact of a seduction. Then they fall apart in revealing stop-motion monologues as if a petal were trying to be a flower...
...defined by their uncertain memory of the past. Now the particulars of the present are beginning to be bounded by the dark inevitability of the future, the no man's land of death in life. The new and more abstract world that Britain's leading playwright has begun to explore at 44 is still imperfectly mapped, and he will no doubt travel in it further as he moves on into middle age. One hopes that he will once again be accompanied by such sensitive guides. · Lawrence Malkin
...PLAYWRIGHT'S reliance on stereotypes can provide an audience with immediate gratification, with the comfortable, simplistic vision we have grown accustomed to. It can, at the same time, leave us dissatisfied. This is the primary problem with senior Peter Lawson Jones's play. The Family Line. We know all of his characters through years of exposure: the garrulous old bartender who never forgets a customer's face or drink; a feisty, evil-tempered whore; a sweet, naive Southern girl, who came to the North to find a slightly better life; the malevolent hustler; the rising young black attorney. They...