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Sociologically, Playwright Eichman is most astute in suggesting that the transfer of power from the Boston "blue-bloods" to the Irish Catholic majority has actually accentuated New England's narrow puritan ethic. As Ned ("Scooter") Ryan, Dzundza viscerally endows the prosecuting attorney with the instincts of a fox in a hen coop. Always grave and commanding in presence, Earle Hyman has to wait to the end of the play to deliver the doctor's passion ate plea for the right of a woman to terminate her own pregnancy...
...playwright Jean Giradoux had a knack for treating heavy philosophical subjects in a light way. In L'Apollo de Bellac, being performed in French at Winthrop House this weekend, it's the classical theme of beauty that's the target. As the play opens, the Greek god Apollo comes to earth with the mission of teaching a woman the secret to any man's heart: Tell him he's handsome, Apollo says; no matter how ugly, any man will believe that. It takes little social consciousness to predict that this open sesamegets the woman into more trouble than she asked...
...last substantial U.S. playwright in this mode was Philip Barry, whose The Philadelphia Story is brought to mind by The New York Idea. Essentially, the New York idea is divorce and^ the notion that divorced couples can be amiable friends and chase after their respective ex-spouses. These propositions were as scandalous in 1906 as they are commonplace today. But the play lives because its humor has the pinpoint carbonation of champagne and a tipsily endearing bias toward romance...
Garson Kanin, 65, playwright, Hollywood and Broadway director, has a new credit. His latest novel consists of 27 years' worth of work-journal entries. The notes are on a fictive California stage actor named John J. Tumulty, dead ten years when the research starts in 1940. The diarist (coyly named Garson Kanin) tries to create a screenplay from the biographical data. But as Kanin turns and sifts his evidence, mysteries rise from "facts." Conflicting testimony comes from people who knew Tumulty (who bears a resemblance to John Barrymore), among them B.D. (Big Director), the actor's adopted...
...than the Nationalist Party, the Communist Party went underground in the cities while a small faction, led by the then little-known Mao Tse-tung, began a long effort to establish revolutionary bases in remote areas of the Chinese countryside. Meanwhile Chiang Ch'ing, a floundering actress, apprentice playwright and intellectually restless, went to the port city of Tsingtao and made contact with Communist Party members...