Word: romulus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first play, Tennessee, by Romulus Linney, a frontier family arrives at its recently-acquired shack ("We're here, ain't we?") and the father, a weatherbeaten, Abe Lincolnish icon of American spirit, makes long, slow speeches about how he "growed up crawlin' on a dirt floor like a goddamned ant" and now that the war's over he's gonna harness these here fifty acres; his wife stands awkwardly on the porch and pulls at her shawl (for the entire play, in fact); and his well-rouged son chimes in about cutting the brush over yonder. Then a badly made...
Hurt, who is divorced from Actress Mary Beth Hurt, rejected several substantial movie roles before making Altered States, and frequently returns "home" to Circle Rep. This summer he spent four weeks alternating the lead role in Romulus Linney's Childe Byron with a bit part in Jim Leonard Jr.'s The Diviners, and next March he is slated to play Richard II - a perfect role for this intense monarch of metaphors. "When I present a part on the stage, it is to make my life better. When that doesn't happen, I will stop...
...Friars Club; sheet music of an old song called "How'm I Doin'?" (Koch seems curiously remote from these toys, as he does from the bizarre Pee Wee, a giant black-and-white wooden rabbit that sits in his bedroom in Gracie Mansion.) There is a sculpture of Romulus and Remus under the wolf, and a photo of the mayor on top of a camel in Egypt...
CHILDE BYRON by Romulus Linney...
...story was not fogged in myth, like that of Romulus and Remus; it occurred in the bright morning sun of the Enlightenment, with a generation of astonishingly literate men in attendance. From a distance of 100 years, Henry Adams, normally a man of elegant bitterness, looked back at that primal national moment: "Stripped for the hardest work, every muscle firm and elastic, every ounce of brain ready for use, and not a trace of superfluous flesh on his nervous and supple body, the American stood in the world a new order...