Word: ero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worldly manner answer Producer Jean-Pierre Ponelle's demand for a Falstaff who is "no gross giant" and fits into the rumbustious Elizabethan world he recreates. Gramm is light on his feet and a magical actor as he spins out recollections of his pageboy youth (Quand' ero paggio) and summons up what seems impossible but makes the character human: the memory of Falstaff as a child. He is no opera buffoon, but a laughing knight whether on top of the world or crushed by it. As Ponelle says: "Don't forget that Falstaff is an aristocrat...
...parking-meter pilfering to armed robbery. Tito Goya, 22, The Family's composer, scaled his way through prison and music simultaneously. At 17 in Comstock, he learned piano and guitar; in two years at Auburn, he added bass and theory, and at Sing Sing, trumpet. Miguel Piñero, 27, is playwright-in-residence and author of most of Straight from the Ghetto and of Short Eyes. Ghetto street child, ex-burglar, and drug addict, Piñero began writing plays while in Sing Sing for armed robbery...
...prisoners in the workshop, theater provided a purpose and a commitment that they had not known before. "When you're in prison, you're nowhere being nobody," says Piñero. "You're a number. Writing and acting made me somebody in the land of nothing." When a member of the Bedford group suggested that the workshop might continue on the outside, Camillo agreed to try. Beginning in March of 1973, as one by one the men began to be released, Camillo met them at the gate, and The Family was born. Since then they have performed...
Quick Hit. Last fall The Family found a home as resident company at Riverside Church, an interdenominational congregation in Manhattan. The church got a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce Piñero's Short Eyes. Short Eyes -prison slang for a child molester -plays out the ostracism and eventual murder of a prison newcomer charged with the one intolerable crime. Papp first saw the Riverside production at the urging of Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who had become interested in the group while it was forming. The play opened last month at the Public...
...junta also banned the use of the term compañero, or comrade, which had been the ritual greeting of Allende's supporters. Flying squads of painters, meanwhile, ranged across Santiago to cleanse political slogans and provocative graffiti off the city's walls. The Socialist and Communist parties were outlawed...