Nudity On Stage

“To be sure, nudity can be justified artistically, but that fact doesn’t much impress me.”  – Ed Hooks. A few years ago, I saw a play in which the playwright employed nudity.  It was set in a location where nudity would be expected and (intellectually) was...

Giraudoux’s Two Laws

In Giraudoux’s “Two Laws,” he writes about “the eternal status of the playwright” in relation to their characters and in this quote below, to the playwright’s responsibility to reflect the period in which they live. Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944): “…It is futile to...