Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunshine, beer and coeds. This year there was the added stimulus of a sexy film, Where the Boys Are, to bring them running, and the annual invasion was the biggest ever. But, the students discovered, Lauderdale in the spring was dismayingly tame in comparison with the M-G-M script. It was, in fact, just one big. frustrating bore, and the problem was to find something...
...strongest element in the picture is the Hansberry script, which has the towering merit of presenting the Negro not as a theatrical stereotype or a social problem, but as an all-too-human being. For the rest, the film is a charming, passionate, superior soap opera in blackface...
...characters find their salvations in their own ways, but for the script there is only one way to salavtion--to play all the humorous parts humorously, and some of the serious parts too. By using this felicitous method, the Charles Street production has come up with an interesting, funny, and only occasionally boring production...
Regardless of these many drawbacks, and the flaws inherent in the script itself, enough humor remains in the production to make it well worth while. The Cocktail Party, after all, is a play not often produced...
...there is still a strength to Miller's writing, and a grief that grows especially painful when it it an autobiographical expression of guilt, such as that expressed over divorce or the desertion of children. The script is both a pathetic apology to the author's first wife, and a statement of admiration for his second...