Word: mcpherson
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...were due simply to a reliance on the same historical documents or to an inevitable and entirely innocent overlap between separate descriptions of the same scene or event. He received some impressive support when 23 Lincoln or Civil War historians, including C. Vann Woodward of Yale and James M. McPherson of Princeton, signed a public statement claiming the plagiarism accusations against Oates "are totally unfounded...
Marvin's Room. Through Nov. 29. By Scott McPherson. A comedy of what happens when illness brings estranged members of a family together again. Hasty Pudding Theater, 8 p.m. $18-$30, with a 10 percent discount for Harvard students and seniors on Sunday through Thursday. Tickets are available by calling the Hasty Pudding box office at 496-9400 or through Ticketpro at (800) 828-7080. 20 November Friday...
Petrarca has insisted in past interviews that to call this a play about AIDS is to narrow its scope, and to ignore McPherson's original intentions in 1990. But to think of this play as not about AIDS is also to narrow its scope and to ignore McPherson's current sensibilities. McPherson wrote in the note for the program in 1991: "Now I am 31 and my lover has AIDS. Our friends have AIDS. And we all take care of each other, the less sick caring for the more sick. At times an unbelievably harsh fate is transcended...
...year-old McPherson has often been facetious about considering himself a playwright. Whatever he names himself, there are not many writing on this scale: Marvin's Room received the 1992 Drama Desk Award for Best Play, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the John Gassner Playwrighting award, the Whiting Writer's Award, and the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award...
...Boston production is the first that McPherson has been too sick to participate in. His comissioned work is currently on hold. With Marvin's Room, McPherson has transcended an unbelievably harsh fate...