Word: playwrights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appear to be taking a slightly less tortured view of their past. Downfall, a serious treatment of Hitler's last days, appeared in cinemas in 2004. And this month, the stage play Heil Hitler! , "a grotesque, ironical and humorous attempt to come to terms with history," according to its playwright Rolf Hochhuth, opens in Berlin. Interestingly, the company hired to put up the Heil Hitler! publicity posters in Berlin refused at first; an executive said he found the play's title too "hard to stomach...
CATE, YOUR HUSBAND'S A PLAYWRIGHT. DO YOU TWO TALK ABOUT WORK...
...Antigone.” Harvard students get enough of dormcest and leaves of absence, much less incest and exile. Sophocles may have been the most important Greek playwright ever, but this is one case where “sex, lies, and patricide” is really pushing it. 4. “The Father.” See #1. Never forget: One Strindberg play is enough Swedish depression, paranoia, and angst for a generation of Harvard students, and “Pelican” already ran last semester. 3. “Death of a Salesman...
...time in cars around campus, but the upcoming production of Neil LaBute’s play “Autobahn” in the Loeb Experimental Theatre promises to thrust them into the midst of the visceral interactions of daily commutes in Chevrolets, Mercedes, and old Pintos. Contemporary playwright, film director, and screenwriter LaBute is well known for his stark portrayals of human relationships, and “Autobahn”—which runs Dec. 8-10 and 13-16—is no exception. Though the interactions between LaBute’s characters are almost always...
...Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...