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Hello Molly Ayre, goodbye Art: the fate of high comedy. (Theatre).
DEVOTEES OF TRANSCRIPTESE have enjoyed seeing Gore Vidal, Henrik Ibsen and Ionesco appear in print as Gorver Dahl, Henry Gibson and Ian Esko, and may fantasise that Moliere will complete this jaunty quartet by being listed as Molly Ayre. It would mark the apogee of a dumbed-down society, but it is unlikely to happen. Moliere is the creator of high comedy and has joined his fellow practitioners William Congreve, Philip Barry and G.B. Shaw on the back benches of our culture. No one wants to produce or watch high comedy, any more than they want to pick up pins wearing boxing gloves, so its most accomplished exponents simply do not get mentioned. At least they avoid ...
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- Magazine article from: Advertising Age April 7, 2003 700+ words
...year signaled its interest in the online process. Reverse auctions ``will become the new norm for doing business,'' Mimi Kramer, DuPont's global team leader-marketing communications sourcing, said at an Association of National Advertisers event...
- Babylon Gardens. (Circle Repertory Theater, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Disch, Thomas M. November 25, 1991 700+ words
...yuppies, not to put too fine a point on it." They also found fault with their behavior and occupations. The New Yorker's Mimi Kramer marveled that "a man with all Bill's sensitivity wouldn't notice his wife going slowly around the twist and call a psychiatrist...
- The Secret Rapture. (Public Theater, New York)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Disch, Thomas M. December 18, 1989 700+ words
...performances--after twenty-two previews downtown at the Public Theater. As it has closed, I will simply add my endorsement to Mimi Kramer's cogent anatomy of the play's central structural fault in The New Yorker. In a nutshell, Kramer argues that the plot...
- Waiting for Godot. (Lincoln Center, New York)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Disch, Thomas M. December 19, 1988 700+ words
...could to mollify their sense of miff by pronouncing the production unworthy of Beckett's genius, while in The New Yorker Mimi Kramer gave so circumstantial an account of the staging that no one who read it need admit to the shame of not having been there...
- A Whole Lot of `It' in the Drawer
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Bob Levey January 6, 1987 700+ words
...campaign on behalf of Children's Hospital: The HILT 2 class at Barrett Elementary School in Arlington ($25 in honor of Mimi Kramer, the teacher). Employes and management, Houston's Restaurant, Rockville ($85). Employes at Sovran Bank, Beltsville...
