Romulus Linney (1930–2011)
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Born in Philadelphia and reared in North Carolina, Linney is an actor, director, novelist, and playwright who has achieved wide respect if not fame. His plays are often produced off-Broadway and in America's burgeoning regional theaters. He has also enjoyed success in Great Britain, Canada, visa mer Germany, and Austria. A number of Linney's plays are set in the South and are noted for their Faulknerian humor. Other of his works focus on historical figures such as Jesus Christ, Frederick the Great, and Lord Byron. His themes deal with social and personal values, religion, and death. Although his plots are sometimes melodramatic, his accurate and perceptive portrayals of the human condition have earned him praise. Linney's first stage play, "The Sorrows of Frederick" (1967), is a psychological study of the historic figure Frederick William II, the eighteenth-century king of Prussia. "The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks" (1972) is about an army general and his wife who commit suicide as a protest against the Vietnam War. Linney's first southern play, "Holy Ghosts" (1974), focuses on a Pentecostal sect that requires its members to handle poisonous snakes. "Laughing Stock" (1984) is set in different regions of the South and is composed of three one-acts: "Goodbye, Howard" portrays a North Carolina hospital where several quarrelsome sisters await the death of their brother; "Tennessee" dramatizes a woman's return to her childhood home; and "F.M." depicts a young writer enrolled in an Alabama college. Linney's most recent plays have been lighthearted in tone and have been mounted with simplicity and economy. "Pops" (1986) is composed of six vignettes dealing with romantic love and structured around six famous melodies performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra. "Heathen Valley", adapted from his first novel, was performed in 1987 as a part of the Philadelphia Festival for New Plays. The work, which is set in the mountains of North Carolina, was staged very simply with fiddles and dulcimers providing a musical background and the actors evoking the landscape. Linney's critical recognition includes a 1974 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in playwriting, a 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1984 Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a 1986 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Linney also received the coveted Obie Award in 1980 for his play "Tennessee". In 1990, a number of his plays were featured at a New York theater, the first time this had been done for a playwright. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av Romulus Linney
Why the Lord Come to Sand Mountain 4 exemplar
Democracy: A Comedy Based on Two Novels by Henry Adams and the Administration of U.S. Grant (1976) 4 exemplar
Can Can 3 exemplar
Over Martinis, Driving Somewhere 1 exemplar
The sorrows of Frederick; a play 1 exemplar
Oscar Over Here 1 exemplar
Three Poets: Komachi 1 exemplar
Goodbye, Howard 1 exemplar
Yancey 1 exemplar
Juliet 1 exemplar
Songs Of Love 1 exemplar
Gold And Silver Waltz 1 exemplar
Claire De Lune 1 exemplar
Three Poets: Akhmatova 1 exemplar
Three Poets: Hrosvitha 1 exemplar
Sand Mountain Matchmaking 1 exemplar
Two Plays by Romulus Linney 1 exemplar
Juliet, Yancy, April Snow 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Linney, Romulus
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Linney, Romulus Zachariah, IV
- Födelsedag
- 1930-09-21
- Avled
- 2011-01-15
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dödsort
- Germantown, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Manhattan, New York, USA
Boone, North Carolina, USA
Madison, Tennessee, USA - Utbildning
- Yale University (MFA)
Oberlin College - Yrken
- playwright
novelist
teacher - Relationer
- Linney, Laura (daughter)
- Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2002)
Fellowship of Southern Writers - Priser och utmärkelser
- Obie Award (Playwriting, Sustained Excellence, 1991-1992)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1984)
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Sand Mountain av Romulus Linney
A set of two plays, both set on Sand Mountain. The first one is simply what is known as an "interview play" where the characters sit and talk to each other. The second is...strange, and a bit preachy. The intensity of the bucolic accents sort of makes the plays hard to read, but I suspect it would make them difficult to understand in production, as well. In the end, though, the main problem is that they just aren't all that interesting.
½
Two plays by Linney, one about Frederick the Great of Prussia and the other about snake-handling Pentecostal churches. The first is interesting, but I don't know enough about Frederick to evaluate the accuracy. The time warping actually works, as more than just a gimmick, to juxtapose different events in his life. The play is somewhat psychoanalytical, but does not do that overtly. It's just that in a post-Freud world, everyone is going to notice the tying of events in his childhood to his adult behavior. The second play, Holy Ghosts, is more difficult, though much more in a classical, linear mode. It is difficult because the subject can be disturbing. Linney doesn't try to make judgements on the people in the church, and treats them kindly, and pulls off the difficult task of generating sympathy for the assortment of misfits with which he peoples his church. I was worried about reading this, because seeing it performed a few years ago, it haunted me for more than 2 years. Reading it did not have the same impact, so I think I can rest more easily.… (mer)
The story of Byron, told through the eyes of his daughter on her death bed. She summons him from the grave to put him to rest in her mind before she dies. The decadence of Byron's life, and his inability to find happiness, are on display here. Not a pleasant play, but well written.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 53
- Även av
- 9
- Medlemmar
- 309
- Popularitet
- #76,232
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 52