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Denis Johnston, professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and member of the Summer School Faculty, will conclude the Series August 8 when he discusses "The Playright in the Theatre Today...
...back to the American stage after a semi-retirement of eight years, is a tense, introspective drama of emotional conflict which looks from here to be as ill-fated as many of its predecessors from across the Atlantic. Its success in London may have been due in part to playright Terence Rattigan's gift for easy dialogue and his mastery of subtle character analysis, two qualities dear to the hearts of British theatre-goers. But deep down, beneath the morass of complex personal relationships, the play is without core. Rattigan guides his characters' development with delicate artistry, but when called...
Back from Rome sporting a dark green Tyrolean hat with a tiny brown brush, Playright Tennessee Williams assured reporters that Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini are "very happy together." As for Rossellini's onetime good friend, Actress Anna (Open City) Magnani: "The sexiest woman I ever...
DURING a critical period in the present world adjustment, when he was held up at Knysna in the African summer of 1932, Shaw was inspired to break away from his ordinary business of playright to give the rank and file his views on modern religion...
...sensitive feelings of the artist are often given a cruel blow by the jibes of an unsympathetic critic. Having delivered himself upon the high altar of his art, to say nothing of the lucrative desk of defiled Mammon, the minor playright shudders at the crudity of those to whom it is not given to understand the scope of greatness. That criticism has constructive as well as destructive powers is forgotten by the mangled remains of budding genius forgotten also that there are standards which must be realized, a public that must be informed and protected...