Word: bum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...batting average of .198: "Things are bad. I can't make love to my wife, I can't run bases, and I couldn't get a hit if they was pitching me basketballs underhanded. And my kid hates me. To top it off, I got a bum leg that don't hurt." Manager Lou Tyler is solicitous, if gruff: "Now, about that slump of yours. You know, it wasn't but a few years ago that you blacks was allowed in this league. The way you been playing lately, they might kick...
Originally written for three men, this adaptation for women depicts the lives of two sisters and an interloping bum who disrupts their mundane lives and relationships to each other. Although each actress delves into her character and moulds a clearly defined personality filled with idiosyncracies, the script does not enable them to develop fully into a person with whom the audience can identify. Not only are the characters confined physically in the one room where the play takes place, but they are also limited mentally by the sketchy world Pinter creates for them...
...Caretaker's plot centers around a bum named May Davies (Faith Justice) who is taken in by one of the sisters. Aston (Sandra Shipley) who collects junk and seems slightly moronic. The other sister, Mick (Pamela Dritt Knickrehm) is a highly volatile punkish woman who is dissatisfied with her sister's ineffectuality in making only one of their large house habitable. The bum works her way into the sisters' lives and gradually becomes more selfish and demanding of the sisters as time passes. Since nothing really happens in the women's lives even after the bum moves in, the play...
...three quarter hours) contributes to the audience's frustration as the play's loosely linked series of scenes progress very slowly. All three women live in their own unsuccessful worlds which cannot sustain any interaction when forced to allow others to enter. After she takes in the bum, Aston's altruism causes her to suffer painful flashbacks of her past in a mental hospital and to recall her inability to deal with people. Shipley creates a very neurotic and tense Aston who has tremendous difficulty finishing thoughts. Her taut facial expressions constantly match her nervous and fidgety personality. Shipley...
Justice's bum epitomizes the futility prevalent throughout The Caretaker Justice portrays a derelict who seems emasculated in the brutal world. Her filthiness complements her undeveloped personality and her selfishness seems ill suited to her poverty-stricken position in society...