Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contests, Contests. When Shirley was a child in Los Angeles, her Seventh-day Adventist parents were dismayed at her interest in opera: they loved "good" music but considered opera almost as frivolous as theater and jazz. But she was a girl with aggressive drive and unyielding self-assurance-and so proved it in her brief venture in real estate. Then Shirley won an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show in 1955, and the Juilliard School of Music gave her a full scholarship. Graduated in 1961, she had already made a successful Town Hall debut and been featured...
...films are beginning, to provide Pleasence with a measure of artistic largesse. Next month, he, Pinter and Shaw, who have incorporated themselves as Glasshouse Productions, will sponsor a play by a young British writer named John Hopkins at London's Royal Court Theater. The plot is a parable of human guilt: a policeman kicks a child-murderer to death in his cell, thus becoming as bad as the killer himself. Pleasence's own acting ambitions are more conventional. "I'd really like to do a season of repertory with Shaw," he muses...
Some playwrights bring their lives into the theater. Others bring only their reading lists. The Man in the Glass Booth proves that Playwright Robert Shaw, the English actor and novelist, has read accounts of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as well as Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Israel and the comments on Hannah Arendt's book. Unfortunately, his play recapitulates the past without transforming it. It raises the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity and the paranoic personality of the archkiller, along with a recital of atrocities. But it offers no fresh illumination...
...shot down, and spent a year in a German prison camp. After some postwar repertory and lots of television, he was about to sign a film contract when he read the script of The Caretaker. The play paid him ?10 a week at London's Arts Theater Club; it proved such a hit that it moved to a larger commercial house and ran for more than a year...