Word: ailey
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Call Me is the story of a trio of ill-adjusted young people who emerge as a triangle-a Columbia graduate student (Robert Duvall), his undergraduate Negro apartment-mate (Alvin Ailey), and a questing girl (Joan Hackett). It comes quickly to life in scenes that reveal the Negro badly bruised with race resentments, the girl rather sophomorically looking for an honest man, and the graduate student thinking that he is one in his bellowingly individualistic, care fully tailored misfit way. Their talk can be caustic, their clashes sharp, their belligerent defenselessness vivid. The play's best qualities...