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Linney's vivid biographical reconstructions of controversial personalities are remarkable for their power to retain a lifelike vigor—as in his treatment of Hermann Goering in 2: Goering at Nuremberg, and Lord Byron in Childe Byron.
Jan 8, 2015 · Romulus Linney, 1930–2011. The playwright who drew on a Southern boyhood. By The Week Staff. last updated 8 January 2015. Though he never became a household name, Romulus Linney’s prolific...
In his review of the production, theatre critic Kingsley R. Fall commented on Linney’s performance: “He plays Sakini, the irrepressible interpreter, a role essayed by several competent gentlemen, including David Wayne, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach and Marlon Brando.
Christine Parks and David Van Pelt in Gint, 1998 Ibsen Stage Festival, Oslo, Norway. Linney saw his first “great play,” Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, at age ten. He adapted the Ibsen work to Gint, which he described as “a tale of a man who loses himself trying to find himself.”
Romulus Linney was an American playwright and professor. He wrote three novels, four opera librettos, twenty short stories, and eighty-five plays—which have been staged throughout the United States and in Europe and Asia.
Dec 3, 1989 · ''A historical play nowadays means the kiss of death,'' says the playwright Romulus Linney, who has reworked the form to critical praise in plays about the Prussian King Frederick the Great and...
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Linney was the founding playwright of Signature Theatre Company, which named a theater in his honor in the new Signature Center, which opened in 2012. On his birthday September 21, 2012, Appalachian State University in Boone, NC opened his archives for researchers and scholars.
