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This play, the first of two one-acters on the same bill, takes the title of Adaptation . It is the story of a man, a "contestant," who walks through a life that closely resembles a television quiz show. The object of the game is to "figure out the rules and...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Theatregoer Adaptation-Next at the Theatre Co. of Boston | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

Well, this contestant's game consists of a lot of adaptation and no security, a lot of the so-called American Dream and no life. It is somehow very funny, as the contestant scurries from square to square, from the New Left to the fraternity house, from a shrink to...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Theatregoer Adaptation-Next at the Theatre Co. of Boston | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

ADAPTATION-NEXT. An evening of one-acters, both directed with great comic flair by Elaine May. In Miss May's Adaptalion, a contestant plays the game of life as if it were a TV game with penalties and bonuses. In Terrence McNally's Next, his best play to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Dartmouth is the only undefeated team in the EIBL, and Yale trails the Indians and Cornell with a 4-2-1 record. In retrospect, Harvard could be a contestant for the league title if it weren't for two bad first innings. Two home runs in the first against Army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Confident of Victory Over Undefeated Indians, Bulldogs | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

No Fudging. As legend has it, the British marbling tourney traces its heritage to the days of Elizabethan chivalry. For the hand of a maiden, two 16th century swains clashed in an "all known sports" tournament in which marbles, for reasons now obscure, became the dominant contest. By the 1700s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marbles: The Secret of the Terribles | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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