Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...deaf-mute students of Washington, D.C.'s tiny Gallaudet College last year mimed Othello in sign language. Next year tribesmen in Southern Rhodesia will play Macbeth costumed as Zulu warriors in animal tails and feathers. As for his native England, the playwright's blessed plot resounds with Shakespeare, from the Old Vic to Regents Park, where the lyrics of The Tempest boom through stereophonic loudspeakers suspended from the trees...
Beauty & the Bestial. The swan-dappled Avon may have been the Styx to a London actor, but the best touring companies played in Stratford. Englamoured by them, Shakespeare, some time around 1587, left for the big town and joined an acting company. As actor and playwright, Will was a quick study...
...Tenth Man. Stumbling into sentimentality, Playwright Paddy Chayefsky nevertheless sensitively manages to sketch the story of a troubled young couple who employ the superstitions of the past as a help in facing the realities of the present...
...Prodigal. Youthful Playwright Jack Richardson turns the Orestes legend into a brilliantly mocking and modern fable...
...Balcony. French Playwright Jean Genet sets this monument of dramatic mockery in a brothel, almost proves his point that there are two main classes of people on earth: whores and their clients...