Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...famously cantankerous playwright, below left, inspired ACT-UP's famously confrontational protests for an AIDS cure in the late '80s. As a result, gay and lesbian civil rights are loud parts of public debate...
Observing these blessed creatures, coveting their unearned good fortune, is Damon's Ripley, more muted and awkward than they but a fast study. Ripley's outsider status is what especially appealed to Minghella, 45, a playwright and former professor whose Italian immigrant parents still make and sell ice cream on the Isle of Wight. "This sense of a man with his nose pressed up against the window, the sense that there's a better life being led by other people--to me, these feelings are familiar and pungent...
...Playwright Terence McNally gets death threats over gay Jesus in Corpus Christi...
...LONESOME WEST Martin McDonagh continues to astonish. The young London playwright's comedy drama about two brothers fighting over their father's money--the third of a trilogy that includes last season's The Beauty Queen of Leenane--plays at first like a Two Stooges farce. But the laughs thinly disguise a chilling picture of human nature at its nastiest and a rebuke to the romance of rural Ireland...
...SNAKEBIT A fine actor, David Marshall Grant (Angels in America), has been evolving into an even better playwright. With passion and sharp humor, his off-Broadway drama, about a trio of smart and smart-alecky friends trying to shift the course of their lives, digs deep into the souls of characters whose problems are all too universal...