Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...there is also no reason that a playwright must necessarily observe the three classical unities, but here Shakespeare violated them with a vengeance. The work covers the whole decade from 40 B.C. to 30 B.C. Well, all right. But, too, it hops, skips and jumps all over the then-known world. All the world's a stage, perhaps; but no stage can be all the world. As to action, there is nothing that can really be called a plot-line. We have instead a diffuse, kaleidoscopic melange of tiny incidents. The work contains, believe it or not, forty-two scenes...
Expresso Bongo is the slum to stardom story of a London Presley-in-the-rough, depicted with total amorality. Adapted from his own play by British novelist and playwright Wolf Mankowitz, the film removes the glittering facade of show business for a behind the scenes view of the world in its dog-eat-dog reality. The almighty pound weaves in and out of the script, permeating the atmosphere and the characterizations...
...Prodigal. Playwright Jack Richardson boldly appropriates the grim material of Greek tragedy, skillfully turns Orestes into a mocking modern...
...British playwright N. F. Simpson is not a raving lunatic, although that is the first impression his two plays give. On the contrary, Mr. Simpson is lucidly, frighteningly, overwhelmingly sane. His unblinking perception of the rationalized madness that we call human life misleads one at first into thinking his plays gibberish, but we soon perceive that they are not the products of a chimpanzee pecking away at a typewriter, beloved example of statisticians as the primate may be. A Resounding Tinkle and The Hole are the result of something as rare as chimps actually--rather than in imagination--at typewriters...
...Balcony. With acidulous understatement, Playwright Jean Genet divides the world's population into whores and their clients as he tries to prove in this ironic comedy that a house is not only a home, but the whole world...