Word: goats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Giles Goat-Boy, unexpectedly made the bestseller list, but the number of people who really read their way through its 710 pages not even WESCAC, the story's omnipotent computer, could determine...
...Harvard, there were stars -- like Chris Gallagher, Bob Kanuth and Gene Dressler -- and something of a goat in Barth Royer, but there was little of the teamwork and fast-breaking that characterized the first four games...
Partly as a result, Jane Wingert cannot make a truly strong character out of Agata. Only at the very end, when she is on stage alone, do we get a sense that all the forces of Goat Island should direct themselves on her. And this comes as something of an anticlimax, because Moss has made almost too much of Angelo, giving him a weight he can't sustain in the play's resolution...
...single facet of Goat Island particularly stands out: the performances are individually erratic; the set is unduly drab and natural -- particularly for such a non-theatre as Christ Church where a stylized setting would have been much more appropriate; the blocking is effective at times, and contrived at others. But the finished product somehow triumphs over its parts...
...Goat Island is testimony to the healthy effect of having no money, no theatre, no stage, not much of a set, no publicity to speak of, and a good play...