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“statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act” At Black Ensemble Theater At 6@penn Studio

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KPBS SUBMISSION DATE: OCTOBER 20, 1999 The actors weren't stripped down; the production was. Acclaimed South African playwright Athol Fugard wrote an opening scene for naked actors in his stark and searing 1974 expose' of the Immorality Act, which prohibited interracial relationships in his country. Black Ensemble Theater's associate artistic director Patrick Stewart didn't find the nudity necessary -- but it might've helped. Despite a bare, Read More →

“collected Stories” And “the Hostage” At The Old Globe

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KPBS AIRDATE: OCTOBER 15, 1999 At the Old Globe, it's all about writers. Two plays, two genres, two eras, but the splendor is in the language. In "The Hostage," a heavily populated dramatic farce by Brendan Behan, the irrepressible Irish playwright inserts his personality, his lifestyle and his politics into every scene. The battle here is for country, for history, Read More →

“wonderland” At The La Jolla Playhouse

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KPBS AIRDATE: OCTOBER 8, 1999 A budding, young Chinese-American architect takes a business trip to Singapore. He meets a woman, they go to bed, and before you know it, she's pregnant, they're married, and they're winging their way back to America, to start a life together in the Land of Opportunity. That's the opening sequence in "Wonderland," a memory play Read More →

“gangster No. One” At The Fritz Theater

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KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 29, 1999 By now, we've all had a bellyful of American mobsters… their contorted faces looming ominously on the small and large screen. Mafiosi with their Noo Yawk accents, their molls, their mothers and their murderous machinations. Now, we meet their transcontinental counterparts. The London underworld is the setting of the brutal and brutally funny "Gangster Read More →

“The Diary Of Anne Frank” At North Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 22, 1999 In Amsterdam, you can visit the site. You can climb up the steep steps of the narrow canal-house, past the bookcase/door to the claustrophobic garret where eight people lived for two years, hiding from the Nazis until they were discovered and carted off to concentration camps. Only one of them -- the father -- survived. Read More →

“cymbeline” At The Old Globe Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 1, 1999 You may have seen reduced or ridiculous, comic or condensed Shakespeare, where theater troupes roll the Bard-works into a ball, one big mishmash, mélange of Elizabethan mayhem. But why bother? Shakespeare did that all by himself, in his late, not-so-great 1610 play, "Cymbeline." The Bard has borrowed shamelessly from his earlier creations. Set in Read More →