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...tried his hand as a playwright, and with Louis O. Coxe he wrote the stage version of Herman Melville's Billy Budd...
...taught popular courses in restoration and postmodern drama. He also taught a course on George Bernard Shaw, a playwright he greatly admired...
...dramatist is denied these techniques. Theater cannot create perspective with the same precision as fiction and film. A playwright may only present what a character does and says or what others do and say with regard to that character. He or she cannot force the audience to look at those actions or words from a specific point of view. Thus, in the case of madness, the inner development of a victim of insanity cannot be easily conveyed, for an audience will be prone to classify all varieties of irrational behavior and speech as more or less the same. Madness itself...
Billy Elliot, the new British film about an 11-year-old from a coal-mining town who wants to be a ballet dancer, is a prime example of elevated kitsch. Written by playwright Lee Hall, Billy echoes most of the manipulative inspirational films of the past 20 years. The movie could be called Chariots of Flashdance, Strictly Ballet, Smile--Life Is Beautiful! Audience members, already primed to love a losers-win story about a poor boy with big dreams, don't have to bring anything to the film, because director Stephen Daldry does all the work for them. Sentimental movies...
...over a decade ago he was still on the wrong end of the tear gas and water cannon as a firebrand anti-apartheid leader. The conference's host, Czech president Vaclav Havel may be feeling a little nostalgic, too - after all, back in '68 he was just another Absurdist playwright trying to overthrow the system...