Word: stoppard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Separate Peace by Tom Stoppard...
...weekend run of three one-act plays by Stoppard, Stanley and Albee runs at the Adams House Kronauer Space Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday night at 10 p.m. The show will include performances of A Separate Peace, Welcome to the Moon, and The Zoo Story...
...Stoppard, J.P. Stanley and Edward Albee...
...awareness. He believes that comedy is the "highest expression of truth" and, conversely, that the funniest things are frequently the truest. This makes for considerable humor arising from grim situations. Moreover, Parent's wanderlust means a frequent change of scenery and a liberating sense that, as the playwright Tom Stoppard put it, every exit is an entrance somewhere else...
Although deeply personal, this work invites comparisons: with Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Michael Frayn's Benefactors and, above all, David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, which is more animated and bitter in its glimpse of the film business but not as involving. Like Stoppard and Frayn but unlike Mamet, Williamson has the daring to write about artists who are actually artistic -- sincere and good at what they do. His fable ends ambiguously for all parties, but with a whiff of genuine tragedy. -- W.A.H...