Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morn. Bands and discotheques rocked away with Elizabethan abandon. And many young couples were seen to be popping below quite early, leading one ancient mariner to muse that the cruise might be fruitful beyond Cunard's calculations. The great drift-in's only real disaster, said New Bedford, Mass., Travel Agent Bob Penler, occurred "when...
Using material from the black poets and playwrights like Melvin Van Peebles and Ed Bullins, the Bedford group flourished where other groups had failed because, says Steward, "they used to visit with plays that just didn't relate. The great majority of prisoners are black and Puerto Rican ghetto citizens-they want a play about what they left and what they are going back...
...actor who grew up in the Newark ghetto, where "I spent my life avoiding situations that would get me into prison." In 1971 Camillo did go to Sing Sing, however, to help with a prisoners' theater workshop. A year later he opened his own workshop at the nearby Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, beginning with a group of six men that quickly grew...
...provided a purpose and a commitment that they had not known before. "When you're in prison, you're nowhere being nobody," says Piñero. "You're a number. Writing and acting made me somebody in the land of nothing." When a member of the Bedford group suggested that the workshop might continue on the outside, Camillo agreed to try. Beginning in March of 1973, as one by one the men began to be released, Camillo met them at the gate, and The Family was born. Since then they have performed in churches, high schools...
...officer is wearing an unauthorized third dog tag that reads, "If you are recovering my body,-you." He tunes in on a Vietnamese girl, who learned her English from a black G.I., as she tells of her gruesome experiences during the Tet offensive in the funky phrases of the Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. Does one gasp or laugh? That is a life problem, not a literary one. Jones just records what he hears...