Word: storeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What about major contemporary British playwrights, such as Storey or Osborne? "We don't want to do them--for stylistic reasons. Lots of them tend to write for a 'naturalistic' theater. I think they write in a style where what is seen on stage has to convince the audience that it's the real thing. But the only reality is the actor on the stage and you're watching. Our company is beautiful, eccentric, talented, and the fun is using and stretching the limitations." A recent production of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real, for example, was done in drag, with...
SAVILLE by David Storey...
Saville's emotional barrenness seems the result of the meanness of life in the village. He has no political instincts, and Novelist Storey (This Sporting Life and the play The Changing Room) is not pamphleteering. But his moving novel is what used to be called a social document; it demonstrates with harrowing examples that there is nothing ennobling about desperate and ill-paid labor...
Some of the Laurentian material in this new novel, notably Saville's unsatisfactory love affair, conveys a rare sense of place and emotion. Yet the impression remains strong that Storey, himself a miner's son, is unable to put enough distance between author and subject. His anger does not shake itself clear, and, like the hero, the novel's impressive strength never quite finds its direction. Skow
Stafford's facility finds its parallel in Storey's own gift for creating character and scene. Storey's style is unobtrusive; but the sense of reality which eludes Colin is all about him, in Storey's precise depiction of the fictional world he inhabits. The effects in Saville are rarely obvious; our passport into Colin's dilemma is understatement and the slow accumulation of detail. Storey uses strings of adjectives almost lovingly. Writing of Colin's mother, he says: "It was as if her life had flooded out, secretly, without their knowledge, and she some helpless agent, watching this dissolution...