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That may elicit groans from the stadium seats, but it probably gets sustained applause in the Knightley household. Knightley portrays her parents--playwright Sharman Macdonald and stage actor Will Knightley--as the noblest and humblest of theater folks. One of her favorite stories about how they suffered for their art has to do with her conception: "I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream...
...three - the pedophile, the mother of a 10-year-old girl he has murdered, and a scientist who uses him as a subject for her research into the criminal mind - speak directly, and separately, to the audience, in that dreary minimalist mode of so many new plays. But Irish playwright Bryony Lavery breaks the formula by bringing the characters together for a few key confrontations, and the superb actors (Brian F. O?Byrne, Swoosie Kurtz and Laila Robbins) help keep our eyes transfixed on events almost too terrible to contemplate. The fact that this bleak and unsettling play transferred from...
...feels alive with human warmth and American optimism. Nottage based it on the life of her grandmother; her achievement is to make it both a lovingly rendered family story and a fascinating and original slice of the American story. Watch for Broadway, and the Tonys, to discover this fine playwright soon...
...understatement, indirection, irony. "In England, we never entirely mean what we say, do we?" a Bennett character declares in the 1977 play The Old Country. "Do I mean that? Not entirely." Yet an argument can be made (though never, never by Bennett himself) that he is the foremost English playwright. Certainly the most English playwright, if by that we mean the dramatist who alchemizes the manners and rancor of the quiet middle class into delicious and troubling comedy. He's been at it since 1960, when, at 26, he and three other Oxbridge wits wrote and performed the satirical revue...
...most romantic filmmaker in the world. In incandescent images of glamorous performers, he details love's anguish and rapture, which are often the same thing. Beautiful women throw themselves at handsome men?Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai?and the men often step aside. Love, the playwright Terry Johnson wrote, is something you fall in. Wong's films make art out of that vertiginous feeling. They soar as their characters plummet...