Word: playwrights
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...Known as "The Man Without A Face" - for many years, Western spy agencies did not even have a photo of him - Wolf was the son of a German Jewish doctor and playwright, a Communist who had to flee Hitler and ended up in Moscow. He attended elite party schools in the Soviet Union, was trained for undercover work, returned to Germany as a journalist covering the Nuremburg trials and joined the East Germany spy service at its inception. In 1952, because his pungent Stalinism convinced Russian leaders of his loyalty, he became its chief - and brilliant...
...footsteps and become the next free radical feminist thinker. However, her plans become complicated when a dentist falls in love with the daughter and the dentist’s landlord happens to be the childrens’ father. “The exposure to the most influential British playwright of the 20th century is an opportunity you can’t miss. Shaw in performance is a really special treat and we’ve made it 10 times more fun than it is just on the page,” Birnbaum says. Though “You Never...
These days, and increasingly so, the playwright is indignant. Unlike a youth's reckless rage or an old man's sour huff, Michael Gurr's fury radiates white heat. "I've never been angrier," he says. "Our current national government has presided over a time of almost unbelievable moral corruption." Gurr is speaking about toughening up the idea of compassion, his words punching through the chill wind of a bloody-minded Melbourne spring. His conviction is kinetic: he's a man with a steady gaze and fresh legs, impatient to change the temper of the times. What...
...father was employed as a broadcaster for the BBC, Fraser migrated to Auckland when he was 14 and spent much time with his Fijian grandmother, who lived in the same Mount Roskill house until her death in 1990. While working as a cinema supervisor through the '90s, the aspiring playwright penned his aptly titled second play-and the one-woman show, with nine characters spanning three generations, proved to be the little one that roared. First performed in 1999, Fraser's love letter to his grandmother toured the world to acclaim-thanks in part to actress Madeleine Sami's extraordinary...
...recognizable to people, either through pop culture or because they lived through that time themselves. That connection makes the audience much more likely to engage with the play. Part of the appeal the play holds for Ritchie is its status as a lesser known play by a well known playwright. I hate going to a show that’s been done many times before and expecting what I saw last time and then being disappointed. The more well known Oscar Wilde plays would have set those kind of expectations, but with this one, the various adaptations that have been...