Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bring notable, talented people here [from Romania]," said RSH President Horiade Gavrilitza, who mentioned playwright Eugene Ionesco as a possible participant in the future...
...with a different set of expectations and a little patience, Straightlines is an enjoyably different and sometimes extremely creative performance. The purpose of art, is has been said, is to disturb, not reassure. Tan will not reassure us with convention. This is not a "regular play," and if the playwright leaves us shifting in our seats and glancing at one another, maybe it is we who should readjust...
...then there was . . . But the catalog is endless. Events of the past week can only lend credence to playwright Henrik Ibsen's observance, "Those heroes of finance are like beads on a string -- when one slips off, the rest follow." Is there any possibility of knotting that string? Or is scandal as much a part of the market as the NASDAQ? Can the greedy be saved from themselves? Or does Midas play as big a role as Oedipus in the human psyche...
Still waiting--No word yet on whether Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president will speak at Harvard's Commencement this June. Harvard extended the formal invitation a few weeks ago, but has not yet gotten a reply. Now, it looks like they may have to wait quite a while. According to a U.S. State Department spokesperson contacted two days ago, Havel's office has been inundated with speaking offers--some 45 for May and June alone. Meanwhile, the spokesperson said, Havel's administration has not been too quick to respond to any of them. "They've been planning them 24 hours...
...cause nothing happened in the good ol' USA this holiday season. Sure, by invading Panama, our faithful president tried to stir up some yuletide cheer. But that just didn't cut the turkey. There was a revolution going on in Rumania! They were electing a playwright president in Czechoslovakia! They were dancing in the streets in East Germany! And it was boring as hell back home...