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...course, was always in this small group of dissidents, and, if he didn't go off to Europe seeking art for art's sake, he spent most of his time at home pointing out the dilemmas of a society whose sole motivation is blind greed. It was the playwright who exploited these dilemmas best, partly because other artists avoided the plight of the "normal" person altogether. The poetry and novels of the post-war period are filled with madmen and dropouts but with few members of the overwhelming nine-to-five majority. Only the playwright has generally found his material...
...Broadway, is still running there and round the world. Papp has staged-or supervised the staging of -such far-out musicals as Blood and Stomp!, classics like Trelawny of the Wells, and a modern-dress rewrite of Hamlet. He also has a good record of finding new American playwrights, whom he regards as a vital natural resource. "I'd rather do flawed American plays than outstanding foreign plays," he says. Charles Gordone became the first black playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize with his 1969 Public Theater production of No Place to Be Somebody. David Rabe won an Obie...
Doubting, Questioning. When the Public Theater's new season began last week, the lineup of at least seven full-scale plays and seven workshop productions was typical. Set to open this week, for example, are two dramas: The Black Terror, "a revolutionary adventure story" by Black Playwright Richard Wesley, and Sticks and Bones, by David Rabe, about the family life of a blind Viet Nam veteran. In previews is a musical version of the Greek tragedy Iphigenia. And the workshop is preparing a production of Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities...
...play about people talking about a dead, gay poet doesn't sound like it would make for a very enjoyable evening at the theater. But when it's written by a playwright like Tennessee Williams, and staged by a company like that at the Loeb Ex. it becomes not merely enjoyable. It becomes essential...
Escape literature is the term generally used to designate a chickenhearted conspiracy of writers and readers who do not want to face up to real life. But as Playwright Tom Stoppard noted in his existential comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an exit is always an entrance some place else. One of the most original, whimsical escape artists in contemporary American writing is Richard Brautigan, who is definitely some place else...