Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Many Swedes, wrote Playwright Hjalmar Söderberg, are torn between "the desire of the flesh and the eternal loneliness of the soul," between short, delirious summers and interminable bitter winters of deep-country solitude. But Bergman's sense of inner division is so strong that once (or so he claims) he walked into a room, saw a standing figure, realized with terror that the figure was himself, his Doppelgaenger. Even the two sides of his face seem startlingly unrelated. The right side looks strangely dead, the left side vividly alive. And he can see much better with...
...Levy) was the sixth Broadway production to open in February and close within a week. A harrowingly pretentious verse drama, The Tumbler was the deadliest of the six, while also providing the most newsworthy casualties: Director Laurence Olivier, Actors Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris and Martha Scott, and a playwright who once wrote Springtime for Henry...
...play has its weak points: by becoming melodramatic, the action seems a little too manipulated, and it is intricate and talky in getting under way. But even then it is an action in the service of a theme. Playwright Hellman's old mordant power is in evidence again and again, but Toys combines it with a broadened sense of humanity. Always sharp at characterization, the author of The Little Foxes has become more probing and wide-ranging about character. She has passed from human greed to something at times no prettier but much more universalizing: human need...
Five Finger Exercise. An English family's hopeless un-togetherness and snapping tensions nearly kill a stranger among them, in a play manipulated quietly and expertly by Playwright Peter Shaffer, well staged by Director John Gielgud...
Five-Finger Exercise. An English family's hopeless apartness and snapping tension nearly kill a stranger among them, in a play manipulated quietly and expertly by Playwright Peter Shaffer...