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...DIALOGUE IN Thomas J. Cottle's new book, Black Children, White Dreams often reads like a script from the television show Room 222. The scenes depicted are not unrealistic, but the sugar-sweet conversation which the author continuously passes off as the "native tongue" of two 11-year-old ghetto children is very annoying. Cottle--a sociologist and psychotherapist from MIT--says in his introduction that his intention is to observe and describe the children because he believes in having their words heard by those who live in other parts of America. Although he "constantly fears the predisposition to overromanticize...
Using material from the black poets and playwrights like Melvin Van Peebles and Ed Bullins, the Bedford group flourished where other groups had failed because, says Steward, "they used to visit with plays that just didn't relate. The great majority of prisoners are black and Puerto Rican ghetto citizens-they want a play about what they left and what they are going back...
...hefty black female guards in starchy white shirts. A loudspeaker voice cut through the clamor to introduce the program: "'The Family' started behind the walls and it is now functioning outside the wall. And every member is a professional. Today we will see Straight from the Ghetto...
...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...
...Camillo, 36, a dark, mustachioed man inclined to high-riser blue shoes and flowered shirts, whom his company -not entirely jokingly-call "Poncho God." Camillo, one of the few members of The Family who is not an ex-convict, is a veteran actor who grew up in the Newark ghetto, where "I spent my life avoiding situations that would get me into prison." In 1971 Camillo did go to Sing Sing, however, to help with a prisoners' theater workshop. A year later he opened his own workshop at the nearby Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, beginning with a group...