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...morning and you see some of the best athletes in the world going for jogs or eating breakfast. It's indescribable!" A few days later, the No. 1 seed was knocked out of both doubles and singles, and his conqueror, the Swiss giant Marc Rosset, was looking pleasantly bewildered. "I like the Village so much," said the unseeded Rosset, who went on to win the gold, "maybe I'm going to buy a flat in the Village...
...Shakespeare live on Parnassus. Beckett lives in Paris, and he threatened an injunction to block the Endgame production. Just before opening night, both sides agreed instead that the show would go on. But attached to each program would be disclaimers from Beckett and his American agent and publisher, Barney Rosset, along with a defense of the production by Robert Brustein, A.R.T.'s artistic director...
...letter to Brustein, Rosset had also questioned the casting of black actors in two of the play's four roles. Last week Actors' Equity, the stage performer's union, denounced such objections. Said the executive secretary of Equity, Alan Eisenberg: "We've got to raise the consciousness of the playwright to the concept of nontraditional casting...
...Endgame" opened on schedule at the Loeb Wenesday despite threats of legal action by the Nobel Prize winning playwright and his publisher, Barney Rosset of the Grove Press. Beckett and Rossett objected to ART's set, its use of incidental music by Philip Glass and its use of Black actors...
...BARNEY ROSSET, personal friend and publisher of Samuel Beckett in the United States, has asked the A.R.T. to halt its production of Mr. Beckett's Endgame. Beckett himself has termed the production "completely unacceptable" and "a complete parody of the play as conceived by me." He added "Anyone who cares for this work couldn't fall to be disgusted by this...