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All culture and communication depend on the interplay between expectation and observation, the waves of fulfilment, disappointment, right guesses, and wrong moves that make up our daily life.
--E. H. Gombrich
![[Pic: Charles Marowitz]](./portrait/marowitz.jpg)
Charles Marowitz is a writer whose work has appeared in The NY Village
Voice, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Sunday Telegraph
(UK), London Times (UK). He is the author of over two dozen books, the
most recent being The Other Chekhov: a biography of the legendary actor
& theorist Michael Chekhov. He was the lead critic on the L.A. Herald Examiner until
that paper's demise.
Marowitz is also a director and playwright. He
is the author The Marowitz Shakespeare, an anthology which contains
seven free adaptations of Shakespeare's works. His latest play
Murdering Marlowe was recently premiered in Los Angeles and is being published
by Dramatists Play Service in the spring of 2005. His black comedy
Sherlock's Last Case was presented on Broadway with Frank Langella in
the lead role. His most recent directorial credit is Temptation by
Vaclav Havel which he directed at The National Theatre of the Czech
Republic in Prague. He was the founding Artistic Director of the Malibu
Stage Company and is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars &
Critics. He maintains his own Web site, Theatrebooks-Marowitz, devoted to rare and unique material relating to the theatre and its allied arts.
Marowitz has been contributing book reviews and essays to Swans since November 2004. His work can be accessed in the yearly archives, at:
2004 || 2005 || 2006 || 2007 || 2008 || 2009 || 2010
A couple of examples...
• Exclusive Interview With William Shakespeare (August 2006): Charles Marowitz goes one-on-one with William Shakespeare, on everything from T.S. Eliot, to Hamlet, to his opinion of contemporary interpretations of his works.
• George Carlin: Apocalyptic Comedy (Feb. 2005): A review of the latest book by our staunchest guardian of language, George Carlin's When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?