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...DAVID MAMET refuse an all-female troupe the right to perform his plays? The New York City-based QuintEssential Theatre Co. chose a series of pieces from Mamet's Goldberg Streets as its inaugural production. "We picked works we felt were gender nonspecific," says member Natasha Borg. The group got the O.K. from the two publishing houses that shared the rights, Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. "When applying for the rights, you must list all the cast members," says Borg. "They could see we were all women." But a few weeks before the Jan. 6 performance, the group received...
...David Mamet refuse an all-female troupe the right to perform his plays? The New York City-based QuintEssential Theatre Co. chose a series of pieces from Mamet's "Goldberg Streets" as its inaugural production. "We picked works we felt were gender nonspecific," says member Natasha Borg. The group got the OK from the two publishing houses that shared the rights, Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. "When applying for the rights, you must list all the cast members," says Borg. "They could see we were all women." But a few weeks before the Jan. 6 performance, the group received...
Despite these praise-worthy qualities, The Tennis Partner is certainly not served up and followed through perfectly, pardon the pun. Though you don't feel that you need to know the differences between the serving styles of John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg to understand the book, the incessant barrage of tennis lingo (as well as medical jargon) can become slightly tedious. The analogies and comparisons between tennis, medicine and life sometimes seem amazingly twisted and contrived, and sometimes annoyingly simple. To truly enjoy the book you will have to find it in your heart to forgive the occasional trite phrase...
...impetus for a positive focus on other revived regions such as Africa. If your story inspired one African youth to run for elected office or encouraged one foreign investor to consider Africa seriously, then it did a great service to a continent almost forgotten in this postcolonial world. DYLAN BORG Melbourne...
...sports network ESPN. The tour has grown from 35 tournaments with a total purse of $8.7 million a decade ago to 43 events with $41.65 million in prize money today. The future of senior tennis looks just as bright, with crowd pleasers such as Jimmy Connors, 45, and Bjorn Borg, 41, attracting fans to the Nuveen Tour for players 35 or over, and globe-trotting grand masters like Rod Laver, 59, and Ken Rosewall, 62, continuing to dazzle with their skills...