...Laurence Senelick Copyright © THEATER 1991 1991 THE DEPARTMENT OF MISSING PLAYS, CHEKHOV DIVISION LAURENCE SENELICK f only Chekhov had written more great plays than his...

... baseball once at the Miss Jaffe: Do you remember the time we were something to happen, but not very hopeful. Polo Grounds. in Des Moines? Even the soap has not shown up. Coach Poison is givingjinal instruction to his crew. Coach...

... a regional possibility of betrayal, the necessity of trust, playwright, and he may be one, in the best the loneliness of responsibility. Above all sense of the term; like Faulkner, he discovers they show us the artist - if not Miss Helen a whole universe in a place others regard as in Mecca...

..., Miss Molly. Get in MONA Splat. line, I’ll hose you down. CHONA Cobbler, Dr. Lutzky? Fresh out of the MONA MonaMokusRobbery. oven LUTZKY Hello Sir. Parents of the Muslim...

... be fau Ited for misrepresenting its predecessors in th is category. But the plays of Miss Owens, Miss May, M. Planchon, and their predecessor Goldoni, are first and foremost intended to be scripts; they cannot then be downgraded for being scripts. And insofar as they are scripts...

... has been, and then has the strength to at least look for something different. In Miss Julie the characters spend most of the play looking for that new shape and then become aware of what they have been and cannot help being. In Ibsen, self-awareness means gaining the strength for struggle...

... charm and whimsicality been more apparent than in the charming and whimsical play, which opened before a charmingly whimsical audience last night at the whimsical old Empire Theatre. "It is unfortunate that Miss Adams abandoned her original intention of playing the leading role, for, after...

...; that Pentimento succeeds has at least something to do with it. Miller's play, like Mailer's Marilyn, is the rapacious exploitation of a myth. Miss Hellman's book is the subtle and unconscious creation of one...

..., and fans, there is forming an idea of the kind of work that Miss X writes. “DOyour thing so that I may know you,” said Thoreau, and there is Miss X working and slaving and creating an “Xian use of language” or an “Xian type of character development.” And her public is getting to know her work...

.... 33 temptation of strolling in the direction of her house and seeing Miss life helped give the provocation more of an edge, more of a demand Helen’s “Mecca”for the first time. She was still alive at that point, but that I think about it, try to do something about it. had become virtually...

... [December 14, 19501 Dear John, I have read and then Wales2 read aloud, for the second time, your Macbeth article3-indeed Macbeth shall sleep no more. I have nothing against Miss Sitwell, I think she is a game old war horse, part fraud, part muddled, partly haughty, and part high nosed. I must...

....) fears! obsessions! ADARE (Miss Adare lies prostrate on a couch Why ? (Approaching him with a gun.) upstage. Downstage, Dr. Hoffman is (Spoken) Because I have not been paid...

... with Ludlum’s aesthetic. appearing modest and upright, Miss Cubbidge’s desire for Bluebeard, Ludlum’s first play to get critical praise and Bluebeard explodes once he feigns romantic interest to achieve popular success, was an ideal choice for divert her from his plan. Miss...

... your best shot or don’t “Macho Man’’ Savage, wearing a se- his elbows (the crowd hums like a hive come shootin’ at all. quined floor-lengthcape that matches with anticipation,knowing what’s com- If you feel like you’ve missed some- his manager’s miniskirt. Long hair, full ing...

... could do your lessons now. STAS Just a minute. MOTHER Well, come quickly, Miss Jastrzebska will be here soon. STAS I'm coming. (Stas does his lessons. Enter Miss...

... writing, It seems to me that you also absorbed the visual because their work is on an equal footing, one aspects of stories. And your Royal Road starts off so who realizes the text and one who thinks it wonderfully with Miss Piggy. Tell me more about up. This is how I look at theater...

.... The estate may be lost: and life has passed him by almost unnoticed, but he never misses intrusions on his gentility. That handkerchief is Josephson's punctuation; Chekhov suggests only that he "looks at Yasha." Josephson turns that TheChem~Orchatd look...

.... 39 jelinek hunter Could it be that you are leading beauty doesn’t count much among those of yourself astray? May I suggest that you give us who hike through the wilderness. Once up being your own sole refuge so that you a week there is pair-skating practice on the won’t miss...

..., their security and peace in the same way that in Men’s Cause (Manner Sache) Marta, who sells bones and giblet for pet food, has her independence, her prosperous business, her fantasies. Miss Rasch in Music on Request (Wunschkonzert) has her everyday ritual of returning home and of housekeeping...

...? You may have wanted to, stupefied by the nonstop shopping extravaganza. Or perhaps you have missed a minute or two of Broadway’s latest offering, unintentionally dozing away some precious dollars. While it is not uncommon to see a few nappers in an auditorium, it is odd to go to the theater...