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...EIGHT homely ex-heroin addicts who improvised The Concept out of their cure at Daytop Village turned out to be an irresistibly attractive group of young people...
Having learned at Daytop to come out from behind their images and let people get close, they were also able to open up and deliver themselves as characters with total honesty. I saw one actor in the Square on Saturday and was half surprised that he didn't say hello...
Addicts, of course, get arrested a lot. After puking in a cell going through "cold turkey" Augie Nigro got a choice between four years in jail and Daytop Village...
...straight, you're at Daytop now!" At Daytop Augie literally yells to his encounter group for help. No one comes running with a soft shoulder or a dose' of Methadone to help him out. The object is to get him to "make an investment," and the group wants to know "What are you gonna do for yourself Augie?" But at least this investment, once exacted, is guaranteed...
...DAYTOP offers a surrogate family. The cast refers to itself as brothers and sisters. They became heroin addicts because childhood didn't work out, and now is their chance to do it over and do it right. "No, I never told my father I loved him," Augie confesses. "No, it wasn't because I was afraid he'd think I was a homosexual...