Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Middle of the Night. A wise, touching description of a love affair between a middle-aged man (Fredric March) and a girl in her 20s (Kim Novak). Actor March is superb, and the script is probably the best thing Playwright Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky has ever done (TIME, June...
Five Finger Exercise. There is more than a measure of truth in Playwright Peter Shaffer's picture of English country life, and John Gielgud's fine direction helps to keep the uneven play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) from becoming intolerably cat-and-mousey, turns it into an engrossing production...
...Miracle Worker. The extraordinarily luminous performances of Anne Bancroft as Teacher Annie Sullivan and Patty Duke as the young Helen Keller bring force to Playwright William Gibson's loosely constructed story and brilliance to the theater...
...Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky has juxtaposed chant and wisecrack, surrealism and photography, insanity and farce in his story about a young girl believed possessed by an evil spirit, and though the play fails philosophically, it remains a genuine theater piece...