Word: playwrights
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Perfect Days attempts admirably but never quite succeeds at being as innovative and modern as its plot suggests. The American premier of famous Scottish playwright Liz Lochhead's romantic comedy seems eerily pervaded by a sense of d‚ja vu. Two of the play's three controversial themes-the affair between the older female protagonist and a younger man, and the tense relationship between the protagonist and her meddling mother-have been long exploited in literature, theater, and cinema. The third and by far most provocative issue, the homosexual man-heterosexual female coupling that occurs between the protagonist...
...that he's ready to change the shoe. Apparently, the house believes in luck just as much as the players do, and Ray seems intent on breaking the players' winning streak. There's no need, however. As soon as I begin watching the action, people begin losing again. The playwright knows when to walk away, but Hemingway stays in. Macho till the very...
...moods evoked in the course of Mee's play, now running at the American Repertory Theatre. "Full Circle" is loosely based on a 13th-century Chinese fable called "The Chalk Circle," but it owes even more to the "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a play by early 20th century German playwright (and confirmed communist) Bertholt Brecht. Rather than simply updating Brecht's version for a new millennium, however, Mee undermines it by setting his story during the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...performances are all well-done, from Shultz's perfectly ditzy Dalrymple to Jokovic's young Dulle Griet who grows to love the child she cares for, maturing immeasurably in the process. Also of note is Will LeBow, who turns in a powerful performance as the eternally conflicted German playwright and artistic director Heiner Mller...
...playwright entering the television industry, Rosow admits that she, like Alex, has feelings of insecurity. After writing two one-act plays, iSilent Nighti and iJames Dean,i which earned her top awards at the Rocky Mountain Young Playwrights Festival and the California Young Playwrights Festival, Rosow was spotted for this project by a high school classmateis father who was working at Fox. Although she signed a contract to write the pilot in the summer of 1998, management changes at the network forced her project to be put on the back burner...