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...this point, Brad Damiani came in to play goal for the Crimson and completed Bill Laverack's fine shut-out effort...
...protagonist of Jones's play, on the other hand, eludes categorization to successfully that he baffles us. We are never quite sure whether to be charmed by him. Brad "Rainbow" Robert is a warm, yet spoiled and defeated, 25-year-old. A supporter high school basketball player, he has seen his dreams of making the pros destroyed by a racist college coach, and he now sweats it out daily, working in a plant with yet another coach-his white foreman. He sees little change of this rut. Clinging tenaciously dreams of glory days gone by, and glory days that should...
...that we are never quite sure who is to blame. Throughout the play we receive two conflicting messages. The man has been beaten, unjustly deprived of the success to which he had a rightful claim. Here the inequities of this society are clearly to blame. And yet because Brad is so brutal in his treatment of his wife, so selfish in his needs. Wallowing in such endless self-pity, the message that comes through even stronger is: pull yourself together, man. Go back to college and get yourself out of the plant; adopt a child. Society oppresses, yes, but self...
Despite the play's conceptual flaws, it is both extremely entertaining and moving. The actors are all fine (especially James Cannon as Brad, who is excellent), and the dialogue is natural and moves at a fast clip. Peter Jones, directing his own play, keeps the scenes tight and imaginative. What's more, there's the most terrifying bar brawl I've ever seen on a stage, which should be seen before somebody falls off the platform and breaks...
...Coop management tried for years to get rid of Steele but he was consistently reelected by the Coop membership, until he moved out of state last year. Under the new system, Steele would never get elected. This year another student Coop member, Brad Marvin, planned to run for the board. But the Coop management had apparently had enough of that crap with Steele...