Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hayley's father, John Mills, is a well-known British cinemactor (Great Expectations, Tiger Bay); her mother, Mary Hayley Bell, is a successful British playwright (Men in Shadow, Duct for Two Hands); her 18-year-old sister, Juliet, is now playing on Broadway in Five Finger Exercise...
...Best Man. Tn the setting of a smoke-filled political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with topical dexterity, and much of the lively show's appeal lies in identifying the three biggest pieces of cardboard...
...Miracle Worker. With more feeling than art, Playwright William Gibson draws an outline of the early childhood of Deaf-Mute Helen Keller, leaves it to be filled by the uncompromisingly excellent acting of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...
...Prodigal. The season's best new playwright is a 24-year-old Columbia University graduate who unflinchingly appropriates the material of Greek tragedy, keeps his characters in Argos and in Argive dress, but turns Orestes into a mocking young man of the present...
...Balcony. To French ex-Convict Jean Genet the world is a brothel, and his play-more interesting for its conception and staging than for the playwright's wild language-is set in a bawdyhouse where customers are dressed as bishops, judges and generals to salve their egos...