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Divorced. Wispy British Actress Sarah Miles (Ryan's Daughter), 31, and Playwright-Screenwriter Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons), 51; after eight years of marriage and one son; in London...
...Place is a nightmare of black survival in the white-dominated world, never quite salvaging their own pride from degradation and suffering. A would-be playwright meanders drunkenly across the stage singing the old revival hymn "Wash Me Whiter Than Snow," and condemning the not-so-antiseptic world his family found when they tried to leave their "dirty, filthy nigger hovels across the tracks" and imitate "clean, white people...
...permit the death of a young innocent? If he does not exist, death can only be a convocation of worms. This line of reasoning is not new; it runs through dramatic literature from Euripides to Ionesco- life is a dirty joke. But themes do not a playwright make. A grip on the dramatic imagination does, and Gold shows every sign of that. Born in Georgia, he has spent two summers at the Edward Albee Foundation at Montauk on Long Island, N.Y. It will not come as a surprise that Pat Hingle imbues his role with the warmest humanity As Monica...
...problem is most people don't watch their step when they're going down, they just fall or jump. It is the playwright's job to watch, and to watch carefully, to capture the fall precisely, and perhaps less naively than with a perspective like the bus driver's--a man who dreams of polkas and beer, and can't understand a woman with no more songs to sing...
...sixties and betrayed them." In Kennedy's Children, each of five characters sits in a bar, gets drunk, and relives a personal and national tragedy. At the rate of ten platitudes per minute, they try to "unfuck themselves from the sixties." They fail and the play fails; the playwright, like his characters, cannot detach himself from the decade he is trying to analyze...