Word: playwrights
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...AIDS frontline: of schools that refuse to install condom-dispensing machines because they don't want to encourage sex; of the urban legend that raping a virgin cures the disease. The son of a German-Jewish mother and an Afrikaans father, Uys, 56, began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin...
...Then began the parade. One after another at Einhorn's bail hearing, his supporters took the stand in his defense. A minister, a corporate lawyer, a playwright, an economist, a telephone-company executive. They couldn't imagine Einhorn's harming any living thing. Release of murder defendants pending trial was unheard of, but Einhorn's attorney was soon-to-be U.S. senator Arlen Specter, and bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000 - only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family...
...Then began the parade. One after another at Einhorn's bail hearing, his supporters took the stand in his defense. A minister, a corporate lawyer, a playwright, an economist, a telephone-company executive. They couldn't imagine Einhorn's harming any living thing. Release of murder defendants pending trial was unheard of, but Einhorn's attorney was soon-to-be U.S. senator Arlen Specter, and bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000 - only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family...
...what is it about Pinter - director (of major productions starring Lauren Bacall and Faye Dunaway), political activist (he campaigned against "NATO machismo" in Kosovo), actor and, of course, playwright - that has touched so many? His plays are not as immediately funny as Alan Ayckbourn's, and you cannot easily sympathize with his invariably damaged, degraded characters as you can with those of, say, Arthur Miller. Pinter is more difficult, in every sense, than his contemporaries, and his rooms are battlegrounds...
...role of Prue in Celebration. Ian Holm, who is currently starring in The Homecoming - and also had a different role, Lenny, in the original 1965 production - agrees. "The language is pared down until every word has immense power," he says. "He relishes every phrase. Pinter is the best playwright in the English language...