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Eugene O'Neill seemed to write as if God (or the Devil) had given him life for just one reason: to shout with every breath that all was a ghastly mistake. "Froth! Rotten!" were his actor father's dying lines, and the playwright son with the eyes of a fallen angel carried on the refrain. "The Great Sickness" was among O'Neill's milder epithets for human existence...
...Everyone is splendid, and Madeline Kahn gives a performance in depth of an intrinsically shallow soul that is almost certain to net her a Tony Award nomination. What animates the new theater management at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-whose first production this is - is love of the U.S. playwright, especially the young playwright of promise in his tough apprenticeship years. In offering that nourishing brand of love, Lincoln Center's new producer Joseph Papp has no peer...
...package is about several generations of Southerners, black and white, living on a plantation called Beulah Land (1820 to 1861 et seq.), the name being borrowed from a quotation in Isaiah. It tells of a land truly flowing with milk, honey-and miscegenation. The author has been a playwright (Next of Kin) as well as a minor novelist, and his dialogue demonstrates an admirable ability to leave out the unnecessary clutter that so often drowns sofa-stuffed historicals in sobs and expostulations. His descriptive powers, though, do not rise to such simple things as a squirrel hunt...
Bullins wrote The Reluctant Rapist over the past ten years in between working on the most extraordinary project any American playwright has ever undertaken, a series of 20 full-length plays on the black experience in America that Bullins calls his "Twentieth Century Cycle." Comparing the five plays in the cycle already completed (In the Wine Time, In New England Winter, The Duplex, The Fabulous Miss Marie, and Home Boy) with The Reluctant Rapist it becomes painfully clear that there is no transitive law of genius between playwrights and novelists...
...Playwright Levin develops the weirdness of his characters at the expense of their motivations. Thus incest, necrophilia and schizophrenic identity shifts enter the picture without clarifying it. This is a jigsaw puzzle with too many pieces...