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...FOUR CHARACTERS are refuse from society--unwanted and lonely Mr. Sloan (Mike Samols) enters the sheltered lives of Kath, a middle-aged woman: her crotchety old father Kemp and her effeminate brother Ed. Kath and her father live in a tenement that borders on a dump, and emotionally their lives are steeped in trash and decay as well. The play delves into the complex lover's triangle that develops between Sloan, Kath--who becomes his land-lady and Ed who becomes his employer. To round off the plot, Kemp is the only witness who can prove that Sloan murdered...
Dripping with innate violence, Samols's Sloan consumes the room with his cerie presence. His physical rhythm hypnotizes us--as it does Kath and Ed. who both fall hopelessly in love with him. Always tensed and laconic, Sloan quietly manipulates the frantic brother and sister who desperately need him to fill the aching voids in their lives...
AIRPLANE CRASHES have tragically ended the musical careers of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jim Croce and Buddy Holly, but it was a hand-gun that almost finished off Chicago. Earlier this year guitarist Terry Kath, one of the most creative members of the group, was playing with a gun that not-so-playfully went off and killed him. Beset at the time by various artistic and contractual problems, the members of Chicago considered bagging the whole thing and ending their joint musical career...
Quaker mentor Kath Lawlor let neither the snow nor the lack of a restroom bother her. "We're sophisticated travelers," she claimed. "We don't let the elements bother us. We're like pioneers blazing a trail." Or, translated, anything's better than spending a weekend in Philadelphia...
DIED. Terry Kath, 31, self-taught composer and guitarist for the slick rock-jazz band Chicago; of an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Kath, a native Chicagoan who helped form the popular band eleven years ago, had been drinking with friends when he put what he believed was an unloaded gun to his head and pulled the trigger...