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Written years before Home, The Changing Room and The Contractor, In Celebration is Storey's most personal play. The first three are exactly ob served, but in them Storey distances au thor and subject with fastidious detachment. In Celebration seems to have been axed out of the playwright's heart. While writing this work, Storey must some times have seen blood...
Lillian Hellman, Litt.D., playwright. Georg Solti, Mus.D., conductor (Chicago Symphony...
Molière's title was Les Fourberies de Scapin (roughly, Scapin's Knaveries), and the playwright borrowed the basic outlines of the story from a famous Roman play, Terence's Phormio. The Young Vic has switched the locale to Naples, and performs the work in the bouncy tradition of British vaudeville...
...Rashad Rushdi, 55, is a popular playwright whose none-too-subtle allegories on corruption infuriated Cabinet ministers in Nasser's day. Rushdi, who spent a year of postdoctoral study at the Yale School of Drama, is an artist whose plays incorporate elements of opera, dance and musicals. His latest play, Habibti Shamina (My Beloved Shamina), is an allegory based on the Song of Solomon, in which Egypt is the lover of Palestine (Shamina...
Logan, 34, an actor and playwright, based his drama on extensive research into Ruby's background. The play is a sort of hallucinatory documentary. It starts, unpromisingly, as a tourists' excursion through a Disneyland museum of the American dream, then settles into Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. Ruby, in his sharkskin suit, hawks strippers and gimmicks like a twister's exercise board. He is pathologically eager to please and to succeed, to manifest the American dream...