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Brecht's story is set in Chicago, 1912, where two men battle each other to the death for no reason at all but that they are both alive. Says Brecht: "In observing this battle do not rack your brain for motives: concern yourself with the human element...concentrate your interest on the showdown." The play lives off power, the juxtaposition of the brute vitalities of the prairie born George Garga (Daniel Deitch) and the Malay lumber dealer, Shlink (Seth Adagala...
Three generations of North End Italians have hung out in Mazza's Pool Room. Friday nights after the Hub Lanes down on Hanover Street close there isn't any place else to go. Besides, it's only ten cents a rack (a line of candlepins will cost 35 cents) and Uncle, who took over Mazza's from a relative five months ago, sees to it that no one gets badly hustled...
...walks away to play a rack and the circulation of people resumes. Uncle constantly circumnavigates the hall. He is a small, squat man who appears to be literally easier to flatten than knock over. He advances like a boxer, stopping before the more loud-mouthed, hence less important, kids to draw back his fist and flex his forearm. Violence diffuses through the room like the smoke, and it is easy to forget that the friendly shoves are shoves. Then maybe a drunk comes in. Vic says to the stranger, "Go now. That kid in blue is drunk. He's crazy...
...When things get so bad that people are dissatisfied," said the Justice official, "it's time to rack up and start over again. The only real danger is that the government might not let the policy be talked about. The press and other news media are a real check and balance to keep the government form running roughshod. It's only when a political state forgets why it does something that it becomes a real threat...
Yardlings Rack...