From Dw-World.de: Playwright Renate Ahrens' Mutter-Los (Motherless) deals with a subject so close to the bone in her homeland -- the forced adoptions engineered by the East German government in the 1970s -- that she had to premiere it first in Ireland. As it turned out, it hit a nerve there too.

 

From Playbill.com: Dalton gets his due. Stars line up to appear onstage in Trumbo, about the blacklisted screenwriter and novelist Dalton (Exodus, Roman Holiday, Johnny Got His Gun) Trumbo.

 

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Sunday, February 23, 2003

 

From 24framespersecond.com: The dirty little secret that screenwriters already know: not many directors are auteurs. In fact, most directors aren't auteurs. In fact, hardly any directors are auteurs.

 

From The Associated Press: In Continental Divide, premiering at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, British playwright David (Nicholas Nickleby) Edgar takes on perhaps his most Dickensian subject yet: American politics.

 

From The Guardian (London): South African playwright Gibson Kente breaks a taboo and saves lives by announcing that he is HIV-positive.