Word: goats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goat Island is a sleeper: a little-publicized, ill housed, low-budget stroke of near genius. There were only a couple of dozen people at Thursday night's opening, maybe because it had the misfortune to coincide with gala premieres at Adams House and the Loeb. But like the sage said: "What's box office...
...Betti's play is just as much of a sleeper as the production. One of the lesser-known worlds of a lesser-known playwright, Goat Island is a full-grown tragedy about a woman's search for moral certainty. Unlike other Betti plays, it manages not to get obsessed with the question of justice for its own sake. Betti was both a lawyer and a judge, but in Goat Island he uses the legal metaphor only as a structural device, a means of pushing the play's heroine toward her realization...
...there is a conceptual failing in director Leland Moss's rendering of Goat Island, it is that he makes Angelo, and not Agata, the play's center. This leaves the three women on too much of an equal and collectively subordinate level. Moss has had to miscast himself as Angelo, which in large measure explains this shift in emphasis, since he plays the part with too little earthly charisma, and too much surface charm, to be merely an agent of anything. Angelo emerges as a likeable rather than loveable character, and his appeal reaches as much to the audience...
...says David. "He was rebellious against the stereotype of what we are." He seems always to have been the Rockefellers' odd boy out. Their mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, once admonished the older sons in writing: "It seems cruel to me that you big boys should make Winthrop the goat all the time. You know very well that the only way to help him is by being kind...
THAT is how the politician hero of Hogan's Goat, a recent play about the 19th century Irish in Brooklyn, recalls the era when ward politics was one of the few ways in which the immigrant masses could dream of sharing power. The ethnic vote-the vote of "our kind"-has remained part of the American political vocabulary for a century. Big-city bosses operated on the assumption that they could deliver that vote to whatever candidate they chose-all they needed was a Christmas turkey, a memory for the names of the children, and a fluency...