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These days, and increasingly so, the playwright is indignant. Unlike a youth's reckless rage or an old man's sour huff, Michael Gurr's fury radiates white heat. "I've never been angrier," he says. "Our current national government has presided over a time of almost unbelievable moral corruption." Gurr is speaking about toughening up the idea of compassion, his words punching through the chill wind of a bloody-minded Melbourne spring. His conviction is kinetic: he's a man with a steady gaze and fresh legs, impatient to change the temper of the times. What...
...father was employed as a broadcaster for the BBC, Fraser migrated to Auckland when he was 14 and spent much time with his Fijian grandmother, who lived in the same Mount Roskill house until her death in 1990. While working as a cinema supervisor through the '90s, the aspiring playwright penned his aptly titled second play-and the one-woman show, with nine characters spanning three generations, proved to be the little one that roared. First performed in 1999, Fraser's love letter to his grandmother toured the world to acclaim-thanks in part to actress Madeleine Sami's extraordinary...
...recognizable to people, either through pop culture or because they lived through that time themselves. That connection makes the audience much more likely to engage with the play. Part of the appeal the play holds for Ritchie is its status as a lesser known play by a well known playwright. I hate going to a show that’s been done many times before and expecting what I saw last time and then being disappointed. The more well known Oscar Wilde plays would have set those kind of expectations, but with this one, the various adaptations that have been...
...Nathan D. Johnson ’09, and Simon J. Williams ’09. Produced by Margaret M. Wang ’09, Barry A. Shafrin ’09, and Zach B. Sniderman ’09, the performance featured works by the playwrights David Ives, Tom Stoppard, Anton Chekhov, and Alan Bennett. Each play was presented in a straightforward manner, without any nonsensical or superfluous elements added to a production for the sake of being “original.” The evening began with the one play that could have benefited from...
Jonathan E. Mayer ’10 is hardly a normal college freshman—even at Harvard. Mayer was recently selected for his playwriting skills from over 200 entries as the winner of the 2006 VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Award, a 22-year-old national writing contest that promotes plays focused on the role of disability in society today...