Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wild hope. Severely tested along with everyone else is the audience, which has to sit through long scenes already marked for destruction. As a production is laboriously dragged from town to town (before Camelot reaches New York, its railway fares and freight charges alone will reach $35,000), a playwright sometimes tosses everything but his last will and testament into the first draft to see what will go. A merchandising mentality ("Give them what they want") can sacrifice a song, a scene or a whole play to the whim of a weary tryout audience. But in experienced, honest hands...
...Entertainer. Some of the force of Playwright John Osborne's caustic metaphor, England as a seedy music hall in which no-talent frauds held the stage, may be lacking in the film version of his drama, but Sir Laurence Olivier's interpretation of a soggy song-and-dance man is a masterpiece of mannerism...
...further taste for Shakespeare. Ann-Marie "Turtle" Cottagio, who would "love to act professionally," said she would like to do a Shakespeare play next, to which a well over six foot, well over 200 pound football player, Richard Herman replied that he would be Shylock. But Dempsey, the playwright, thinks Shakespeare...
...shipping clerk who has since become one of the nation's most literate comedians, Mike Nichols-was eventually succeeded by a team that includes one of the best recording engineers in the field: Peter Bartok, the composer's son. The company's dramatic director is Poet-Playwright Howard Sackler, who says of his bosses: "They let you do just about anything you set your heart on, even if it won't pay its way for years." One of the rare exceptions: Lolita, which Marianne vetoed...
...cropped hair, Bentley had originally intended to be a concert pianist. The prospect of the professional musician's grim life changed his mind at the last minute, and he went from Oxford to Yale, where he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature. Among his many books and anthologies, The Playwright as Thinker (1946) and In Search of a Theater (1947), are the most well known. He has attracted a wide audience of grateful readers with his series of anthologies, From the Modern Repertoire, The Modern Theater, and The Classic Theater. Bentley as an anthologizer tends to be unique in that...