Word: reichman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly 3,000 Americans died of the disease in 1977. Each year about 30,000 new cases are reported nationwide; last year 21 states noted a rise in cases. Almost 3 million more cases occur in the rest of the world. Says one concerned pulmonary specialist, Dr. Lee B. Reichman of the New Jersey Medical School in Newark: "It's a classic case of what happens when we eradicate a disease but we don't eradicate it. We know everything about it, yet it's still there...
Playwright Richard Reichman has produced a history of sorts, a dramatization of the development of the drug culture. Yet Headplay is not about drugs; it uses them as a way of following the mind-expansion, spirit-liberation movement through the last seven years. The characters are nameless-you, me, our friends. Their stories are the stories of some hopes we had, some things we loved and a couple of things we tried...
Without making any judgments. Reichman shows how the subculture's beginnings in the Flower Generation-Universal Love phenomenon moved into the great hoax of transcendental meditation, and from there into alienation, separation, and death. The play is structured, to use Reichman's word, like a fugue. Vignettes of life in the drug culture interrupt each other, are occasionally broken by chants, and sometimes take place in total darkness. Yet the interweaving of characters and their stories is not discordant; rather it makes the progression through time and action more like the drug experience itself, with rapid changes in focus, intense...
...been paid off now and Headplay is showing twice a night Thursday through Sunday. The Workshop is designed for "environmental and experimental" theater, housed, ironically enough in a defunct flower market. The "stage" is a large room with cushions clumped about for the audience. Barbara Linden and author Reichman, who directed the play, have used this informal atmosphere to advantage. The action takes place on low platforms in the corners, in and around the audience, emphasizing the ties between the actors and spectators...