Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...curtain went up last week at off-Broadway's Theater de Lys, and there on the stage?in a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon, by French Playwright Eugene Ionesco?was an actor playing a character called Ionesco, a playwright at work on a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon. Three more characters, each called Bartholomeus, turned up and began to unravel funny skeins of academic pedantry in argument with the playwright...
...Simonov's continual interest in other people, an honest concern which lies behind the force of his personal charm as well as the strength of much of his writing. One of the most versatile writers in the Soviet Union, an experienced critic and journalist, a poet, novelist and playwright, K. M. Simonov is best known in this country for his great war novel, Days and Nights, and for such lyrical poems as "Wait for Me" and "Do You Remember." During his brief visit to the University last week, Simonov, acting on his own initiative, spent Thursday evening talking to undergraduates...
Eugene Ionesco, the French playwright who is in this country for the New York production of his play The Rhinosceros, may attend the Saturday performance as the guest of Leo Kerz, a Broadway producer. Other guests atending include Davidson Taylor, director of the Arts Center Program at Columbia University, and Robert W. Goldsby from Columbia...
...week the terms were somewhat more formal, as Arthur Miller, 44, and Marilyn Monroe, 34, prepared for divorce. After four years of one of the most celebrated show-business marriages since Tom Thumb's, it was all but over between the panduriform actress and the handsome, horn-rimmed playwright...
Eric Bentley attacked last night the "prevalent view" that a good playwright creates real characters and asserted that all of drama's greatest characters are "types...