Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon is set aside for "legacy review" to make sure the alumni have not been slighted. Monday morning is "geographic review," to make sure the regional mix is right. Then a waiting list of some 500 candidates must be drawn up; for most, it is Brown's polite way of saying that they came close but could not be squeezed in. Rogers will also look at the ratio of males to females. Last year Brown took more women than men, although more men than women applied. This year the ratio will be about fifty-fifty...
...been hanging around here for days." "I'm the author of the play," the man answered, "and I'm the director as well. You may not have noticed." "Well," retorted the prop man, "I can't say I did." It may not have happened that way, of course, but that is the way Alan Ayckbourn, the playwright and strange-looking man, likes to remember it. Not being noticed is his idea of bliss. "When I leave a room," he says, "I'd much prefer for nobody to know I've been...
...Feelings has two third acts. From night to night no one, Ayckbourn included, knows which one will be played. At the end of the second act, one of the actors pulls a coin from his pocket and flips it on stage. Heads means the third will be played one way; tails means it will be played the other. Both scenes end in such a way that the fourth and final act stays the same. "People come to the theater to be entertained," he says, "and you always begin by saying, 'Once upon a time . . .' Then you start...
Ayckbourn's aim is to write about serious matters in a funny way. One-liners terrify him even more than dentists and barbers. "There are not more than three funny lines in all of Bedroom Farce," he says proudly. At this point Heather confides his real ambition. "What Alan would like to do," she says, "is to write a funny King Lear." But with at least two third acts...
...event, the latest Prize Stories rely heavily on a familiar tone of disillusion. The man whose business fails and wife leaves him, the writer whose wife runs off with a Terry-Thomas Englishman, the couple who discover they enjoy sex more after their divorce, have all passed this way before...