Word: playwrights
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...Playwright Friederich Dürrenmatt’s darkly comic tale of love, murder, identity and physics sparkles with absurdist charm thanks in large part to the production’s cast, which is stellar: each and every one. Alan D. Zackheim ’06 is somber and compelling as the solitary physicist-on-a-mission Johann Mobius, and his single-mindedly devoted yet star-crossed love interest Nurse Monika (Erica R. Lipez ’05) transcends the surreal and silly qualities of her character to turn in an occasionally poignant performance...
This unsettling production by Raja G. Haddad ’05, directed by Greg J. Gagnon ’06 and Austin S. Guest ’06, enters its second weekend at the Loeb Ex. The play, by alternative American playwright Mac Wellman, is a labyrinthine tale of multiculturalism, an interstellar road trip and a challenge to our knowledge of identity. Free. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Loeb Experimental Theater...
...DIED. GIBSON KENTE, 72, revolutionary South African playwright considered the founding father of black-township theater; in Soweto. The first to bring the realities of township crime, poverty and politics to the stage - often using African gospel and jazz - Kente produced more than 20 plays, including Manana, the Jazz Prophet and the antiapartheid piece How Long. Last year he defied his country's taboos about aids by acknowledging publicly that he was HIV positive...
...playwright, poet and novelist, Soyinka is considered one of contemporary Africa’s greatest literary voices. In 1986, he became the first person of African descent to win the Nobel Prize in Literature...
...emits the minute he enters her room. Together with After the Fall, Finishing the Picture completes a portrait of a marriage that can take its place beside Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as one of the most ruthless and revealing in American theater history. For this celebrated, embattled playwright just turned 89, Marilyn is still an inspiration...