Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has joined the mea culpa crew with this play, which argues that Americans were once beastly to the redskins-hardly a startling bit of information. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show alternating with somber accounts of the humiliation and decimation of the Indians, but the segments never seem to gain any harmony of mood or purpose...
...PLAYWRIGHT Horovitz lets everyone have it in Morning. The play's language- explicit and, as they say, coarse- will probably send a good deal of people out of the theatre within a few minutes after the house lights dim. And the playwright's handling of dialects (The white actors switch back and forth between Harlemese and East Side-esque.) is bound to scare a lot of whites into silence as the play goes on its hysterically funny...
Among the participating artists and musicians were Arlo Guthric. Pete Secger, Mary Travis (of Peter. Paul and Mary). actor-playwright Adolphe Green, Leonard Bernstein, and the cast of "Hair...
Poisoned Darts. Anouilh's hero, Antoine de St. Flour, is dead when the curtain rises. A famed French playwright who retired from the world to a Bavarian Schloss on his 50th birthday, he has been killed in a shotgun accident that may have been a suicide. A group of characters from his past have been summoned for the reading of the will. They make up a nicely varied assortment: two ex-wives-one of them an old dreadnought of an actress superbly played by Françoise Rosay-three mistresses and three men, including a dyspeptic theater critic, jealous...
...third act is an epilogue in which a plaque is unveiled in honor of the dead playwright, who has presumably gone to the grave without revealing the existence of his last prophetic play. The dialogue rains poisoned darts on love, marriage, friendship and bourgeois values, making Cher Antoine a precision-tooled piece of lapidary Gallic...