Word: genetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budget Workshop productions. Besides providing one student a chance to test his playwrting on audiences (as indicated earlier), the Theatre Workshop gave Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Adamov's Professor Taranne, Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, Synge's Shadow of the Glen, Genet's The Maids, David English's Waiting for Goodman, Robert Shure's Twink, Ionesco's Jack and O'Neill's The Rope. The production of the last-named was totally inept, but the rest were well worth a visit, with outstanding performances by Thomas D. Griffin '61 in the Beckett...
Half a dozen first-rate holdover shows reflect the steadily improving quality of the fare in off-Broadway playhouses: Little Mary Sunshine, a musical spoof of old-time operettas; A Country Scandal, an early Chekhov play produced professionally for the first time in the U.S.; The Balcony, Jean Genet's mordant and amusingly symbolic study of politics in a brothel; The Connection, a plotless, devastatingly naturalistic, jazz-counterpointed evening with a collection of junkies; Krapp's Last Tape, a one-actor one-acter by Samuel Beckett, throwing a man's youth into the face...
...conditioning has helped the better offerings in the little theaters to survive as well. Among them: The Balcony, French Playwright Jean Genet's dramatic thesis that the world is a brothel and vice versa; The Connection, an awesomely naturalistic study of junkies in their pad; Krapp's Last Tape, a single-actor tour de force about youth and age, on a double bill with The Zoo Story, wherein Playwright Edward Albee creates a critical mass by clanging together a beat with a square; A Country Scandal, an early play of Anton Chekhov, produced professionally...
...Still fresh and unwilted by the heat are Little Mary Sunshine, a crisp, straight-faced spoof of the Grand Old Operettas; The Balcony, Jean Genet's surrealist universe ensconced in a brothel; The Connection, a pad full of Pirandelloish characters waiting, not for Godot, but the heroin fix; and a neat double dose of disenchantment-Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a defeated, Proust-like writer plays back his own past, on the same bill with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, which stars a lonely beatnik trying to communicate with an awful square...
...survivors are headed by Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kern-y, Friml-ous past; The Balcony, Jean Genet's world view through a brothel window; The Connection, a pad full of hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin after all; and a skillfully acted double bill of disenchantment: Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a beaten and lonely ex-writer poignantly and often amusingly grovels in his past, paired with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, in which a desperately lonely beatnik attempts the hopeless, tragicomic...