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Needle Park is a more conventional work, concentrating on a love affair between a pusher named Bobby (Al Pacino) and a girl called Helen (Kitty Winn), who has come to New York from Indiana, had a bad love affair and a painful abortion. She picks up a habit from Bobby and becomes a prostitute to raise dope money for both of them. They hole up with other junkies in the threadbare hotel rooms around...
Jack Kehoe as Jebbie and Andrew Winner as Bobby were sufficiently rat-like to cause giggles in the audience, but were hesitant in delivering their lines. As a result, the jokes degenerated into patter. Al Pacino's direction should have given the play a big kick on its rump to speed it up, but remained restrained...