Word: papp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Family is a tightly knit repertory troupe-18 actors, musicians and playwrights-who, in addition to touring prisons, are currently staging an off-Broadway hit, Short Eyes, at Joseph Papp's New York Public Theater. A year ago, most of them were inmates in New York prisons. Kenny Steward, 32, ex-drug addict, spent 16 years in and out of jail cells as he progressed from parking-meter pilfering to armed robbery. Tito Goya, 22, The Family's composer, scaled his way through prison and music simultaneously. At 17 in Comstock, he learned piano and guitar...
...Manhattan. The church got a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce Piñero's Short Eyes. Short Eyes -prison slang for a child molester -plays out the ostracism and eventual murder of a prison newcomer charged with the one intolerable crime. Papp first saw the Riverside production at the urging of Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who had become interested in the group while it was forming. The play opened last month at the Public Theater to solidly favorable reviews. As drama, it is rough and repetitive; its considerable impact comes from the sheer...
After graduating from Dartmouth, he won a Fulbright scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Moreover, Joseph Papp, one of the Fulbright judges, immediately cast him in his first professional role-as Octavius in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Antony and Cleopatra. "I was a bonus baby," recalls Moriarty, "just like in baseball. I was a raw young talent with little technique and a lot of gall based on very weak foundations-which started to crumble when I got to England...
...Dramatic Arts. A year later, she married Fellow Student Jim Vickery, and for the next dozen years lived with him in a series of cold-water flats, supporting herself with bit parts and odd jobs. At one point she had to turn down a major role when Director Joseph Papp, who had only heard about her, asked her to read for Juliet. "Oh, Mr. Papp," Dewhurst told him on the telephone, "you haven't seen me yet. I couldn't play Juliet when I was twelve." In 1963, however, she did a notable Cleopatra for Papp...
With the addition of "slapdash" and "ill-timed," that perfectly describes a new musical called More Than You De serve. Sponsored by Joseph Papp at his lower Manhattan dramatic -arts com plex, the Public Theater, it reflects his le gitimate dismay at the social and polit ical gangrene spread by the Viet Nam War. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transpose the My Lai massacre into a sick South Pacific. Nonetheless, if the hard-rock band does not split a play goer's skull, some of the farcically outrageous and libidinous goings-on may tickle his ribs...