Word: playwrights
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...particularly enjoyed translating the works of Plautus, a comedic Roman playwright...
...just this," Guest says, pointing to the piano pushed off to the side and the single support column in the middle of the room. Here, he will work with a cast of nine students to develop an original production inspired by absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett...
...began an education that lasted 10 years. While doing these odd jobs, I immersed myself in the incredible artistic renaissance that was the Village in the 1950s--the Abstract Expressionist painters, the Beat Generation, the avant-garde playwrights. At the Cedar Tavern we'd meet up with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. At the Carnegie Tavern we'd sit around with Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter and talk music. Seeing my first Beckett play, my first Genet play--they were revelatory. They showed me that theater didn't have to be what I had known thus far. They opened...
...merry Christmas is impossible, however, without highly experimental theater. This is where Austin Guest ’05 comes in, to direct beckettproseplay, an abstracted and emotive original, partially cast-generated piece that evokes the difficult and beautiful final prose pieces of celebrated playwright Samuel Beckett. Set to perform Dec. 4-14 in the Lowell House Bell Tower Room, beckettproseplay promises a wholly unique experience for Harvard theater. Not to be missed...
...fifth decade as a playwright, Alan Ayckbourn is one of British theater's senior knights. But the 63-year-old author of such bittersweet comic masterpieces as House/Garden and The Norman Conquests remains as productive as ever. His latest, Damsels In Distress, is a trilogy of self-contained plays that share the same cast but are unrelated save for the Thames-side apartment in which they...