Of course all of this back and forth between our favorite characters is much more interesting than the Tooth Fairy drama.
He cut his drama teeth as a script editor on The Bill in the 1990s: "The thing about The Bill was that it had to tell 150 different stories a year," he recalls.
Green may sharpen his teeth on a drama soon enough but for now he's taking a breather.
Another major beneficiary of philanthropic largess has been Mr. Hollinger, who used a $9,000 Independence Foundation fellowship to visit the Galápagos Islands to research "Tooth and Claw," a drama about a contemporary Darwinian struggle over the islands' resources.
Then, in the fall, New York's Signature Theatre Company will devote its entire season to Shepard: he plans to provide a new play as well as an "overhauled" version of his 1972 drama "The Tooth of Crime," and a new collaboration with his mentor, the actor-director Joseph Chaikin.
The Facebook invitation advised, "ghetto chicks usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama and wear cheap clothes".
Though Strindberg's drama "lacks teeth in today's society," she said, she was curious how it might work when placed in a different context.
At least when the film returns to the 1940s, the director Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn) can get his teeth into some meaty drama, rather than cutesy odd-couple gags and interminable bureaucratic wrangles.
It is as if ten steps have been skipped in the argument and we find ourselves anon alighted in the climax of Act II, clenching teeth as we enact drama without obvious root cause.
Shakespeare cut his teeth writing epic dramas for the big open-air playhouses, from multi-part history cycles to the sunny out-of-doors comedies As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing.
