Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...casting of an English actor in a Eurasian part affronted some Asian Americans, including playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). Last week the board of Actors' Equity -- a union representing 40,000 U.S. performers and maintaining a reciprocal arrangement with its British counterpart -- refused to grant Pryce permission to appear on Broadway because he is not Asian. So far, so predictable: Mackintosh was expected to take the matter to arbitration and win his case, while the protesters reaped some sympathy and publicity...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater recently garnered acclaim for being the first Boston theater troupe to stage any work by playwright Vaclav Havel since his election as Czech president. While the selection of Increased Difficulty of Concentration is indubitably indicative of the group's political savvy, it is even more indicative of its good taste...
Though Ross's production occasionally falls into the generic failing of hollow dialogue and stale blocking, he does an impressive job with the cast. Lead Hopkins makes a strong showing. His performance is consistently focused, and though he perhaps lacks the haggard air the playwright intended for the character, he replaces it with a flawless befuddlement...
What is truly frightening is that Havel intends Vlasta to speak for all of womankind, and for all of womankind to speak for Vlasta. Much of the humor of the work lies in Havel's recycling women's dialogue. The playwright has Huml's wife and mistress share catty, stereotypical lines. Forbes is a little flat as Vlasta, but Martin displays some nice comic timing as Renata...
...Waldheim thought he would get a p.r. windfall from Havel's visit, he underestimated his man. Though a beaming Waldheim introduced Havel to the crowd in glowing terms, the playwright President did not return the compliment. Instead, using language that was indirect but clear enough, he verbally lacerated his opposite number, who for years concealed his service as an officer in a German army unit linked to Nazi atrocities in the Balkans during World War II. Choosing the fear of history as his theme, Havel called "the expectation that one can glide through history unpunished and rewrite...