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While the Follies.v color spread was being prepared, a team headed by John Elson was at work on the cover story. It was written by Stefan Kanfer, our movie critic, making one of his frequent forays into Broadway territory, and with good reason: he is a sometime playwright. Five years ago, Alexis Smith starred in a pre-Broadway tryout of Kanfer's comedy, The Coffee Lover...
...playwright has pulled off some other nice tricks as well. There is the household's current live-in corpse, a perhaps 80-year-old woman, who hobbles in and out of the living room with the aid of her metal walking frame throughout the first act: she is a gray vegetable who says nothing, a fleshed-out phantom who serves as a grim reminder of the truly horrible facts of life that may be only a little further around the corner for this pathetic family. Zindel has also fashioned a dramatic structure that allows for no fat; the action moves...
Although Brecht must be studied in the light of his politics, his ultimate success rests on his skill as a playwright. It is this which has established him as far superior to his contemporaries; men like Feuchtwanger and others, who shared his political views but not his talent...
...Museum of Fine Arts with Emily, and meets authoritarian proprietor Kane and dissatisfied employee Manny Washington I, who takes Steve's suit to wear for an employment interview and who gets the job as a part of an exhibit at the Museum, but who loses the suit to playwright Francine and actor Bradford, who get it back to the cleaner in time for Scott to wear it on his date with Emily, Got that? In a clever climax (around episode four) they all end up at the Museum of Fine Arts, where each muses over the exhibits and applies...
There you have an approximation of a newly imported British comedy, The Philanthropist. Playwright Christopher Hampton, 24, is witty, clever, debonair; he uses the English language with sly gusto and rare affection. He has given an impressive display of that affection in his fluently idiomatic adaptations of A Doll's House and Hedda Gahler in this season's off-Broadway revivals. The misfortune in his own play is that the passion, conflict and tone of voice of a playwright saying what he feels he has to say are all but inaudible...