Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a series of readings from the works of the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, in which whites as well as blacks speak for her. Suffused with a glowing concern for all humanity, as well as with anger at injustice, it is something of a milestone in the current white-black confrontation...
...SPITE of this criticism, How To Make A Woman raises undeniably important questions in an intelligent way. And playwright Stan Edelson has come up with a script which is genuinely entertaining while dealing with topics which generally affect an audience like ether...
...come up with articles about what a kick it is to toilet train your child, or the ecstasy of learning to cook eggplant eighty-nine ways. If anything, women support the present role choice, and perpetuate the system by passing the same alternatives on to their children. For a playwright to berate society for its failures is generally futile-but less futile than choosing an illegitimate scapegoat...
Mopping up after the invaders of animal privacy have come the generalists. They include Playwright Robert Ardrey, whose The Territorial Imperative was rashly naive, and Zoologist Desmond Morris, whose The Naked Ape was at least brashly amusing. Now publishers are packaging curiosities and precursors. Despite considerable charm and insight, The Soul of the Ape is one such...
Terrence McNally, another funny playwright, is the author of the second half of the bill. Next . His brief opus is the story of a 48-year-old man who is mistakenly called in for an induction physical. The physical, conducted by an inhuman army nurse, reduces the man, an already sad individual, to a totally demoralized lump of soggy flesh...