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Gillette
WILLIAM Hauptman's last play at the American Repertory Theater, the musical Big River,was a Big Winner, receiving seven Tony awards for its subsequent Broadway production. Can Gillette, his new play about the drifters and desperados in a Wyoming boom town, possible do so well? Will it boom or...
Half comedy, half social commentary, Gillette takes place against the backdrop of oil rigs and wide-open blue sky. It tells of the types drawn to the fast cash and wild living of Gillette--roughnecks, prostitutes, ex-cons--and focuses on the doomed adventures of Mickey Hollister (John Bottoms) and...
With its Western setting, dashed dreams and ensuing violence, Gillettemight sound just like another Sam Shepard rip-off. But Hauptman tries to make it clear that he's less interested in the "myth of the West" than in the reality. After all, the play's basic situation--tremendous overcrowding in...
Tied in with the tragicomic tale of Mickey and Bobby is the story of the shocks that an oil boom puts on a small city's system. As Doreen (Priscilla Smith), a local girl who tends bar at the Silver Dollar Lounge, puts it: "Gillette used to be nothing but...