Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Andersonville Trial. Playwright Saul Levitt and Director José Ferrer recreate the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the notorious prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although somewhat forced and ultimately unsatisfying, the moral battle in the courtroom has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...
Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer introduces a family alive with tension, chafes them against one another with considerable theatrical dexterity...
...deep corruption which only the most sombre tragedy will generally attempt to plumb. The diamond-pointed cutting-tools of the Age of Wit are to be used to lay bare the dark reality of metaphysical evil. Think of Congreve trying to be Dostoevsky--better, think of a Broadway playwright of the 1920's, which Mr. Mayer was when he wrote Children of Darkness, trying to be both...
...Experimental Theatre will be the center for freshman and sophomore stage training, a student playwright's program, and a required technical training program for anyone using the Main Stage...
Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer lays out the battle lines of a marital war between a man of rough sensibility (Roland Culver) and his culture-fey wife (Jessica Tandy), with their son and a German tutor caught in no man's land...