Word: played
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent this evening sidewalk-hopping. His bow claws at his violin while he glances woefully at the case at his feet, a felt-covered basin for six quarters, nine dimes and a tribe of pennies. "C'mon folks, if you give a little more, I won't play so badly. I teach at Julliard, really. Here's a little Mozart for you." He stops after four measures, scratches at his cap and uses the bow as a pointer to count the coins in the case. "Thanks folks. More." Outside the glass door, all the limos have gone home...
...Loose Ends as the days of this decade dwindle. These vignettes about two people who play desperately at love, only to fumble and lose, contain more honest sensitivity about Americans in the '70s than any slick, year-end-wrap-up-mag or heart warming-hollywood-hack...
...Tolstoy short story about a horse. Unequivocably theatrical, the cast of Strider turns a bare stage into a field, a stable, a palace, a racetrack and a Russian steppe. Without pretension, from the first beats of Russian folk music to the last piercing neigh of Strider's death, this play uncovers the inhumanity of man, the horrors of a class system and the evil of ethnic, sexual, and age discrimination--delightfully...
...question rides with this play, however. Why was it moved from off-Broadway? Money? Strider should be an intimate evening of theater: the simplicity of this production looks out of place amidst the grandeur of a Broadway theater...
GETTING OUT This play slams the audience with a more personal discussion of equality. It is 24 hours in the life of a Kentucky woman who entered prison as Arlie, a hating girl-bitch who whored, escaped prison and finally murdered a gas station attendant. And it tells the story of Arlene, that same woman, who emerges from a long spell in prison to find that the four walls on the outside can be even tougher to escape than the padded walls on the inside...