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Coming and Going is a production in the tradition of the Living Theatre, in which communication is partially derived from community. The Adams House Drama Workshop combines Come and Go by Samuel Beckett, Landscape by Harold Pinter, and excerpts from The Brig by Kenneth Brown and from the transcript of the trial of the Chicago 8 to form a piece in which the communal aura gradually expands...
...Brig does not fare so well in its adaptation. Set in a prison for Marines, the play details the horror of prison life and should assault the viscera as well as the mind. Coming and Going uses only half of the play, and speeds up speech and action to an incomprehensible level. In the Workshop version of The Brig, the barricades dividing victims and executioners are just being exposed when they should also have been vehemently condemned...
...first and second weekends in December bring another experiment in theatre at Adams House, tentatively entitled Coming and Going. Based on Beckett's Come and Go. Pinter's Landscape, Brown's The Brig and excerpts from the trial of the Chicago 8, the production will evolve through what the initiator calls "communal collage." It is intended very much as a group experience in theatre and will also be free...
...Holmes admirers helplessly endure odious allegations asserting that Dr. Watson was a woman? Accordingly, anyone fond of Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain, Commodore or Admiral Horatio Hornblower naturally approaches this new biography with suspicion. Will Britain's second greatest seaman, one wonders, be spuriously presented, for example, as a Hermaphrodite Brig? Or Nelson's long-lost younger brother...
Civilian prisoners would be equally surprised by "the castle"-the Navy brig in Portsmouth, N.H. To look after 480 inmates, it has 370 guards and other staff members, including three psychologists, four psychiatrists, and six chaplains. The white-towered castle is run by Marine Colonel Walter Domina, a cigar-smoking former fighter pilot who offers his prisoners a choice of 25 vocational-training programs. The prison library is stocked with 11,000 books; inmates are allowed to publish their own magazine, complete with girlie pictures, which they get from the Armed Forces Press Service. Since Domina took over last July...