Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...years later she founded an itinerant repertory group with a playwright-folksinger named Ewan MacColl, then known as Jimmy Miller, who later became her husband. The ten-member troupe traveled the north country in an ancient truck, often using the tailgate for a stage. Scattered in World War II, five of the players were killed; the other five grew into the Theater Workshop...
...herd. But even with phone-booth frustrations or bear-hugging mothers, with Tennessee Williams-type drama or the P.T.A., there were happy surprises. In fact, by combining the last two themes-by having Elaine act as P.T.A. chairman for an evening of Art and Mike act as the Southern playwright speaker-they reached the evening's peak. They reached it partly, perhaps, because each did a monologue in his own uninterrupted, unblurred style. When the two play together, things occasionally run together...
...vivid upon the stage; the mere sight-through the smoke of gunfire-of the Wall speaks volumes. But what power The Wall commands comes from the tale rather than the telling, from scattered incidents rather than a sustained whole, and comes a little, also, from the memory as playwright...
Sempiternal Edwardia. Thus the man whom Playwright S. N. Behrman came to know as a friend in 1952, when Max was almost 80, was merely biologically old. Essentially, he had not changed for more than four decades: he had not retreated to the past; he had simply refused to leave...
...Entertainer. In a seedy music-hall performer, England's Angry Playwright-Scenarist John Osborne has a farfetched but arresting symbol of all that is wrong with England. But the vigor of Osborne's complaint and, above all, Laurence Olivier's relentless grotesqueries as the fatuous vaudevillian provide fascination on the screen...