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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...
...unshaven flyer was Harry Richman, 41, who has had a certain success singing torch songs while beating himself on the chest. Born Harry Reichman in Cincinnati, Crooner Richman went on the stage in 1907, rose to vaudeville prominence in 1921 as accompanist to Mae West. Same year he started as a radio performer, has since been a steady Broadway revue star, appeared in several cinemas, run a Manhattan night club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice...
Harry Richman (Reichman), Manhattan nightclub host and Follies star, bought a four-year-old 36-ft. cabin cruiser named Chevalmar II. Last week he received insurance papers for it and immediately set out on a fishing cruise with Follies Girls Helen Walsh, Virginia Biddle, Gladys Glad and Miss Glad's husband, Colyumist Mark Hellinger. At Greenport, L. I., where they paused to take aboard 140 gal. of gasoline, the cruiser exploded, casting Captain White, Richman's pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames...