Not content with tracking Dan and Tracy through meeting and dating, the playwright provides interludes in which his stars, garishly costumed, impersonate guides to the manners and mores of Manhattan, where, he says, everything is everything.
SCENE 2: O'Neill, a failed poet before he was a playwright, provided unnecessarily thorough stage directions.
On the respectable front Lee Blessing, the elder statesman among the participating playwrights, provided a solid if sleepy two-hander in "Great Falls".
The last in particular was a popular playwright, providing Globe audiences with thrilling and challenging social and political questions.
Coward sent one of his next plays, The Young Idea, to George Bernard Shaw, who told him that he "showed every indication of becoming a good playwright providing that I never again in my life read another word that he, Shaw, had written".
Under the direction of Ken Urban, the Playwrights Lab provides our students with a chance to workshop scripts with seasoned actors and directors in a professional setting.
And the playwright, Mr. Thomas, has provided some good gags (the best involves the delivery of several flower arrangements) and has set the scene and situation with a sure hand.
The playwright, Simon Block, has provided rapid-fire dialogue that relishes wordplay, ambitious characters bent on self-justification in morally ambiguous circumstances, and a contemporary setting that stirs together the elements of art, the media and commerce into arch social critique.
Mr. Levine (the playwright Gordon Dahlquist helped provide discussion topics) seems drawn to the notion that Weil's life was something of a performance, an idea that informs his own career, which includes highly unorthodox plays like "Actors at Work".
There is still drama to be found in this timeworn battleground, provided the playwright looks beneath the primal childhood shoving match with which most fratricidal struggles begin.
