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Until recent years, no one could have imagined that rage would be peddled as theatrical entertainment. In its osmotic effect, this viciousness of attitude poisons whatever theme the playwright may have thought he had. The playgoer leaves the theater in a state of psychological dishevelment as he might a hospital room after visiting a patient who is running a dangerous fever...
...HABITS. Spoofing a pair of zany Dr. Feelgoods, Playwright Terrence McNally proved yet again that he is an antic master of absurdism...
...JAPANESE proverb: There is more to drama than meets the eye. Unfortunately, neither George Hamlin, director of Narrow Road to the Deep North, the Loeb Drama Center's latest offering, nor playwright Edward Bond seem to be up on their old Japanese proverbs. Set, costumes, and lighting are all excellent in this production but they cannot camouflage the flaws of a weak script and uneven direction...
...good and bad: 70 per cent good and 30 per cent bad. The woman from the Friendship Association said the classic romances always sell out as soon as they're reprinted, and some people also like the poetry of the Tang dynasty. We talked a little with a playwright associated with the Sian Official Troupe, which is 540 people who put on ballets such as The Red Detachment of Women because that's what the movie audiences want to see. They also broadcast folk songs and instrumental music. When we met them the playwright was working on a play about...
...playwright said he'd never heard of Brecht, which surprised me a little even though concentrating on Western art was obviously unfair--few Chinese playwrights are well known in the United States. But none of us had enough background in Chinese art to ask intelligent questions. The dancers said they'd never heard of Nureyev. One actor said he'd read some Shakespeare and found it similar, in some ways, to traditional Chinese drama, but "far removed" from present-day China. One musician said he'd heard some Beethoven but found it "rather far away from our sentiments and needs...