Word: playwrights
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...R.S.C. has been equally innovative with Breaking the Silence, a quasi-biographical work that centers on Playwright Stephen Poliakoff s grandfather, a Russian Jewish aristocrat who refuses to accept the changes that Lenin's Soviet revolution have brought. Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that...
...felt intimately familiar with all the details of his life: his wife Eleanor, his Scottish Terrier Fala, his cigarette holder, his stamp collection. Yet F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. described him as simultaneously evasive and frank, frivolous as well as grave, "a man of bewildering complexity." The playwright Robert Sherwood, who served for years as the President's speechwriter, admitted that he had never been able to penetrate Roosevelt's "heavily forested interior...
Lithgow will be the first professional artist to speak at Afternoon Exercises in 27 years, the most recent being Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1978. No one with a background in professional theater has given the address since playwright Thornton Wilder spoke at the 1951 Commencement...
...truly affect the way people think and make sense of their lives, the playwright needs to find a new starting point, and it may not be one he himself is comfortable with. “You want to start at the point of confusion,” says Kushner, “and go forward...
...Even the playwright must keep in mind that the theater is living and has a potential all its own to grow. “You don’t want to start out trying to teach people something you already know,” Kushner says to an aspiring playwright in the audience who asks him for advice, “They know what you know; now where can you go together with them...