And, being a contrarian and a dramatist, Mr. Mamet doubtless relishes the attention for his heresy.
Of course, for a dramatist looking for a subject, Best is like an all-you-can-eat buffet placed in front of a very fat person.
His translations introduced the English to Jean Anouilh, a French dramatist whom they came to like much better than himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre, who was a philospher, dramatist and critic as well as a novelist, was too interested in himself to immortalise Simone de Beauvoir.
These happen to be themes that have long fascinated the dramatist: a strange impatience to outwit time and the solitude of ambition.
In the two decades since his humor took center stage, Ives is now a playwright who dives into failed plays or musicals and fixes them, whether they're a stage version of the Irving Berlin film "White Christmas, " a French farce about marital mayhem from the early 1900s, or a work by a 17th-century French dramatist.
Chameroy says he knows there are people who'll be upset by the pairing of the greatest dramatist in the English language with a pop band.
In the festival itself, the drama highlight was work by Ramon del Valle-Inclan, a Spanish, or more precisely Galician, dramatist who died in 1936.
It is, however, a vivid, engaging and sometimes maddeningly self-indulgent text in which the author dances a pas de deux between his roles as historian and dramatist.
The opportunity to work with dialogue written by Stoppard, whom Hall calls the "greatest living dramatist in the English language, " was a major draw for the actor, as was her appreciation for Ford Madox Ford, who wrote the novel on which the miniseries is based.
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