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LAST SATURDAY night, a handful of people ambled out a small door onto Tremont Street, and the Atma Theatre closed its doors in the South End for the last time. Sam Samshak has moved his troupe out of the ghetto he grew up in--taken the impoverished Atma Theatre out of Castle Square and into a church basement. An exciting experiment of the arts in the ghetto has ended. But the Atma began anew Thursday evening at the Charles Street Meeting House in central Boston. It has not failed--only moved to where it can be seen...
...Atma began as a theatre without a base in a community without a theatre. Samshak hoped that he and the community could help one another, but both of them needed something more than the other could provide. The South End's cultural base could not subsidize the Atma as a suburban community might have, and any attempt at local season ticket sales proved impossible. In addition, the Atma immediately encountered the community's inherent hostility to outside intrusion...
...September of 1967 when Samuel Samshak was playing the crony in the Boston MacBird, two theatrical friends approached him with the idea of starting an experimental theatre somewhere in the Boston area. Between the three of them, Samshak, the actor, Jerry Reagan, the actor-director, and Ron Beaton, the light technician, they had the necessary qualifications. So with what little money Samshak had in the bank, they rented a storefront in the cinder-block beauty of BRA's Castle Square and transformed it into a theatre. On October 5, 1967, the Atma Theatre (then known as the Atma Coffee-house...