Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberated Area . . . Che Guevara Hall . . . Fight Racism . . . Get out of Vietnam . . . Power to the People . . . Lieutenant Fraud . . . Smash Imperialism . . ROTC Must Go . . . Amen...
...nude from a Cadillac limousine in front of the East Village's Free Store Theater. The chauffeur displayed icy aplomb but a policeman blinked. Shortly thereafter, Georgiou was onstage in the same costume playing the President of the U.S. The instantly notorious theatrical enterprise involved is known as Che...
Ever since Hair made nudes a commercial fad, one sexual taboo after another has been shattered. The logical end was Che!, which promised copulation onstage. It does not happen. The actors fake it. The uninhibited cast has reached the pitch of passion in rehearsals, but performances before an audience obviously constrict the actors. Even so, what does happen would fill an animated sex manual. Conjecture one hour and forty minutes during which each orifice and organ of the male and female body is employed in all possible combinations...
...Since Che (Larry Bercowitz) is supposed to be Che Guevara, the play poses as a kind of genital love-hate profile of U.S. relations with revolutionary regimes. In terms of Playwright Lennox Raphael's limited dramatic imagination, it is rather like Jean Genet rewritten by an inept Noel Coward...
...Broadway pornocrats have finally run into the law. Che! was shuttered by the police after the second night's performance, and the cast, production staff, director and playwright were charged with "consentual sodomy, public lewdness and obscenity." Should the show never reopen, it would be a boon to untold thousands...