Word: shurtleff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best back-alley art: Under Milk Wood, a fresh retelling of life in the village Dylan Thomas waggishly named Llareggub; Call Me by My Rightful Name, an astringent tale of racial misfits by New Playwright Michael Shurtleff; The American Dream, Edward Albee's effective dissection of modern man; The Connection, a relentless study of narcotics and nihilists; The Zoo Story, another Albee commentary, wedded to Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, Bertolt Brecht's intriguing early effort; Hedda Gabler, an excellent production of the Ibsen classic; and the durable...
Brightest on the byways: Under Milk Wood, a lyrical evocation of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' imaginary town; Call Me by My Rightful Name, a fresh look at interracial misfits by new Playwright Michael Shurtleff; The American Dream, Edward Albee's quietly angry, queerly comic comment on modern man; The Connection, a notoriously graphic portrait of some beatniks with golden arms; The Zoo Story, another Albee study, teamed with Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, far-out but fascinating early play by Bertolt Brecht; and the already classic Brecht...
There are a few signs of life now, but so far this season, things have been nearly as disappointing off Broadway as on. There are two interesting original works, Michael Shurtleff's Call Me By My Rightful Name, a fresh, modest piece about a triangle of misfits, and Edward Albee's one-acter, The American Dream, a somber and surrealistic situation comedy deploring the loss of values in U.S. life. Albee is also represented in a downtown double bill of disenchantment that includes his The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape...
Call Me By My Rightful Name drew rousing newspaper salutes for its author, Michael Shurtleff. "Off-Broadway gives us a playwright," sang the News. "Honest, thoughtful, probing," called out the Post...