Word: playwrights
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...coming playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s semi-autobiographical play The Waverly Gallery poses these questions in a richly-woven text on losses, families, aesthetics and memories. In bringing the play to the Loeb Ex this weekend, director Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05 attempts to explore these themes in a new, abstract and surrealistic production...
...relative newness of the play, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and the possibility of creating a truly innovative production as reasons for her choice of the production. The naturalistic language of Lonergan also served as a draw, as well as the possibility of introducing the promising playwright to new audiences...
...just left her for a younger woman and the man's long-time mistress. Had anyone put this trope on stage before David Hare? A small, pretty, witty play given snap and stature by the presence of its stars, "The Breath of Life" reveals a major playwright in the narrowing career journey from the political epics of his early years to the intimate, no-less-barbed confrontations of "Amy's View" and this two-hander. Some theatergoers wanted to follow this trajectory; most wanted to see the two Dames dish. Even when "Breath" was in previews, scalpers were getting...
...that it would work well as a theater piece, Jarcho set to work. “I don’t consider the play to be a version of the story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman by shooting herself, thereby warning him of an ambush. In Jarcho’s version, however, Bess is the center of what she describes as “a complex...
Michelle Carter, playwright and creative writer professor at San Francisco State University, is the award-winning author of Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop For Ties. Her most recent work is an evening of drama and original music based on the life of Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62 called Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs. Carter sheds light on her creative process in this e-mail...