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...PLAYWRIGHT used the interesting device of making one living room serve for both the Fosters' and Phillips' so that the audience could view both households simultaneously. It was a bold venture, and some viewers found it disconcerting, but generally it was an excellent device and could be improved upon enormously if more care was taken with the set. The costumes, too, could be richer...
...Playwright Richard Reichman has produced a history of sorts, a dramatization of the development of the drug culture. Yet Headplay is not about drugs; it uses them as a way of following the mind-expansion, spirit-liberation movement through the last seven years. The characters are nameless-you, me, our friends. Their stories are the stories of some hopes we had, some things we loved and a couple of things we tried...
...plainclothesmen packed Kahane off and subsequently put him on a London-bound plane. Some of the delegates were outraged. Movie Producer Otto Preminger said the conference, in its treatment of Kahane, was "as contemptible as the Russian Communists or the Nazis." Later, when he had cooled off, Preminger apologized. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, who also defended the rabbi's right to be heard, dismissed the conference as "a Wednesday night Hadassah meeting...
There are two main dramatic uses of memory. One is retributive, and the other is alchemistic. In retributive memory, the playwright squares accounts with the past, attempting to wrest present justice from past injustice. Arthur Miller's The Price is a perfect example. In alchemistic drama, the goal is to transmute the heavy base metals of the past into present lyric gold, as Tennessee Williams did in The Glass Menagerie. Generally speaking, the main thrust of retributive drama is moral, and that of alchemistic drama is aesthetic...
HAVE YOU heard of Joe Orton? Tate? Joplin? Hendrix? Separating individual merit from phantasmagoric death-legend is the whole problem in these cases. If you are asked who Orton is, you had better be ready with information: he was a homosexual, a British playwright killed in a ritual hammer slaying in 1967. What comes up second when Orton's name is mentioned is the fact that he wrote Loot, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and several other black comedies. Loot, you see, has a corpse for its focus, just as Orton's life, ironically and grotesquely, had in the final tally...