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...British director Tony Palmer's new film, Testimony, dramatizes the view that Shostakovich was a closet dissident who was bitterly resentful of the system that shackled him. In David Rudkin's elegant screenplay, Shostakovich (Ben Kingsley) negotiates his artistic salvation through public acquiescence, gratefully accepting his humiliation at a 1948 Soviet Composers' Union meeting and ritualistically denouncing Stravinsky at a conference the next year in New York City. Always he is haunted by the doom- laden specter of Stalin (Terence Rigby), who is seen thumbing through dossiers while sitting by the telephone, dispatching his opponents to their graves simply...
Most companies started in the past by women specialized in fashion, food and other areas traditionally viewed as women's work. Examples of early successes: Florence Nightingale Graham co-founded the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company in 1910, and Margaret Fogarty Rudkin started Pepperidge Farm in 1937. But today women own all kinds of firms. While the majority are service companies (women own nearly half of all retail businesses, for example), female entrepreneurs are also making rapid headway in manufacturing, construction, mining and other industrial fields...
Ashes. Out of the torment of a couple who cannot have the children they so dearly want, British Playwright David Rudkin fashions a drama that is too desolating for tears...
...figures tell only half the story. Papp was never happy at Lincoln Center. He has always been at his best working with new playwrights, and he gave a start to a new generation of young writers-David Rabe, Jason Miller, David Rudkin-who would not have been let in the front door by more profit-minded producers. The classics-with the exception of Shakespeare-make Papp nervous. He never felt at home with Lincoln Center audiences, who demanded at least some older plays to balance the new. Said Papp last week: "I feel I cannot grow at Lincoln Center...
Where Playwright Rudkin eventually falters is in trying to make private grief a metaphor for public sorrow. In a long and wrenching monologue, he tries to link the childless couple's plight to the nightmare horrors of Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, Rudkin is a dramatist who welds theater to life as too few playwrights tend to do. With this production the Manhattan Theater Club reconfirms its status as an oasis of fresh drama under the venturesome leader ship of its artistic director, Lynne Meadow. She has been joined in this instance by Joseph Papp and his New York Shakespeare Festival...