Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...viewer to draw that conclusion on his own. The prosecutor is shown as ruthlessly concerned with his own ambitions, the Governor of Massachusetts is a millionaire, hence clearly untrustworthy, witnesses are bought and browbeaten. Regardless of whether or not all this black villainy is true in detail (and Playwright Rose has his documents well in hand), it weakens the drama. The narrator concedes, almost offhandedly, that the jury rendered its verdict in good faith; but after all the blatant hostility of the judge and prosecution-and, seemingly, of society itself-the play admits no possibility of tragic error, only...
RUSSIAN Novelist-Playwright Mikhail Artsybashev once offered three pieces of advice to his son Boris: "Get out of Russia, don't sponge on my reputation, and change your name." After five months of fighting the Communists with the Ukrainian army during the 1918 revolution, young Boris escaped to the Black Sea, where he boarded a ship that eventually deposited him in New York with 14?of Turkish money in .his pocket. He celebrated his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
...Best Man. In a 1960 political convention, a ruthless opportunist and a hopeless idealist gnaw at each other's vitals while the audience tries to decide just who in actual political life most closely resembles Playwright Gore Vidal's characters...
Toys in the Attic. A ne'er-do-well comes into money, distressing the women who have fed him-and fed on his weakness. Playwright Lillian Hellman writes with all her old astringency, and Jason Robards Jr., Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth and Anne Revere are excellent...
...Prodigal. In one of the season's most original works, Playwright Jack Richardson turns the Orestes legend into a mocking, modern statement...