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DIED. FREDERICK KNOTT, 86, angst-ridden playwright of Dial M for Murder who wrote for money but hated the craft; in New York City. Dial M, a clever, tense mystery that focused on law enforcement's attempts to break down the alibi of a man who has killed his wife, started as a TV special and later became a successful play and a 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film...
...laments Lillian Hellman in Imaginary Friends, Nora Ephron's new play about the literary feud between Hellman and Mary McCarthy. To be sure, these two writers are remembered at least as much for their spoken words as for the ones they put on paper. Hellman, the playwright and longtime leftist, made a famous show of defiance before the House Un-American Activities Committee: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." McCarthy, an essayist and novelist who couldn't abide Hellman's politics or penchant for mixing fact and fiction, offered a put-down...
Slouching behind his desk, director, playwright and Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian watches the rehearsal in dismay. The actors are tentative and uncertain, as if they don't quite know where they are going. The problem, in Gao's mind, is that they are complicating what should be simple. "Speak as you speak, listen as you listen," he orders. "Give me your true voice...
...coming playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s semi-autobiographical play The Waverly Gallery poses these questions in a richly-woven text on losses, families, aesthetics and memories. In bringing the play to the Loeb Ex this weekend, director Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05 attempts to explore these themes in a new, abstract and surrealistic production...
...relative newness of the play, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and the possibility of creating a truly innovative production as reasons for her choice of the production. The naturalistic language of Lonergan also served as a draw, as well as the possibility of introducing the promising playwright to new audiences...