Word: playwrights
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...determination to let the characters speak for themselves will undoubtedly leave the show open to a healthy amount of interpretation. In a play most famous for the post-show dialogue it sparks, this doesn’t trouble Wright in the least. “[The playwright, Shanley,] has talked before about how we’re living in an age of certainty and how people have this steadfast position that they hold to, so that they can’t have any dialogue,” Wright says. “I know the war in Iraq...
...cast a role. It made me feel like I was the clearinghouse for black talent. What are we, 1-800-Cast-a-Negro?”BlackCAST has been active on the Harvard campus since 1960, the beginning of an era that spawned the Black Arts movement and saw playwrights like Amiri Baraka and Edward Bullins employ a new discourse of black nationalism on the stage.But it’s no longer 1960. The extreme and often violent rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement has faded, and Baraka and Bullins have ceded their territory to less radical theater artists like...
...Which playwright has been most influential on your work? CME: Paula Vogel is my teacher and ran the MFA Playwriting Program at Brown, and then I guess Sarah Kane and Caryl Churchill. So many people. Though I have to say Shakespeare, of course. Beckett, and I think Maria Irene Fornes too, and I include her because her work has nourished an amazing flowering of the Latino theater...
Lullabies aren't included at the Benjamin, but at the hotel Andaz in London, columnist and BBC playwright Damian Barr will read bedtime stories to guests all through March. Sweet dreams...
...character, Sheriff Calder, is attacked by men living in the surrounding town, insisting that the other actors actually hit him. The fight was shot off-time in order to simulate a real beating. Brando also once convinced the director of the existence of an imaginary Native American tribe; playwright Lillian Hellman had coughing fits whenever an actor paraphrased a line; Penn’s advice to John F. Kennedy ’40 in the first live-television presidential debates with Richard M. Nixon was to “use close-ups.” Despite the technical advances that...