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(She is somewhat prescient as well, having written her play before the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.) In any case, without the crutch of a conventional narrative or even a main character -- John Brad Maloww), the potentially explosive brooder, is merely part of an ensemble -- the playwright creates a hothouse for the misguided malevolence that might result in grievous disaster.
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It's all part of his ongoing dialogue with Wilson and the brilliant body of work the playwright created.
Despite the difficulties that dogged their careers, the playwrights created a series of spirited -- even exuberant -- heroines.
"A playwright creates some problems if he says there are male, young twins in the play," he said.
When Jon Favreau became the youngest ever White House chief speechwriter in 2008, he was lauded for capturing the vocal style and cadences of President Obama – an excellent skill, one might think, for a playwright creating convincing words to reveal the motives and convictions of a central character.
As a playwright creating a one-woman show, her first obligation is to explain to herself and to us why she feels compelled to reiterate onstage a tragic tale that is already well known on the page.
Why should these pretty schemers allow the playwright who created them to get the last word?
That's not to say that it has to be realistic, but do you believe in the world the playwright has created?
FULL CIRCLE (DirecTV, Oct. 9) The playwright Neil LaBute created and wrote this 10-episode series, which sounds a lot like "La Ronde": a succession of interlocking conversations about life and love, set in a restaurant.
(The scene in which Georgia takes off all her clothes to illustrate the difference between nakedness and the vulnerability of intimacy seems thuddingly gratuitous.) In the end Lesnewski comes to the same sad end as the man who inspired the playwright to create him, but it feels inevitable rather than tragic and overdue rather than much too soon.
They put some distance between the audience and the world that the playwright has created.
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