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...Sure, the guy pretends to put characters in. You've got your usual two, maybe four-five, hippy-type guys climbing into your old car and going off to a beach. To groove, you know, To screw around, scream we're free! to rocks and sand. You've got your passing array of loonies, the guys who carry around pomegranates and sleep with logs. The guy who counts all the punctuation marks ("the rivets") in Ecclesiastes. So you say "they got no depth," right? You say there's no plot, right? You didn't get the Civil War bits mixed...
...Loeb, the audience has been conditioned to know that a good set doesn't necessarily mean a good evening. We have to wait and be sure that the actors don't screw everything up. For this production, Hamlin has chosen a cast of newcomers to the mainstage. I don't know where he found them all, but I doubt he could have done much better...
THESE PEOPLE are radical in name only. They are against the war--probably strongly against the war--but still they don't want to screw their chances of getting into Medical School. They want to have the best of all worlds--the excitement and fashion of being hip and radical plus the security of knowing that they have success assured if they don't do anything too serious. They will not let themselves take their politics seriously, and so they become rude and closed-minded...
...Golden Screw pretends to be innovative and exciting theater. The hero never speaks. He (occasionaly with other characters), merely sings in between dialogues which are directed at or about him, but in which he never participates. A one sided conversation is hard enough to pull off on stage. Given Sankey's trite dialogue, Alice Roach's direction, which is unobtrusive to the point of negligence, and M.I.T.'s incompetent actors, who tend to point their hands a lot and look bored on stage, the results was worse than a class play at P.S. 451--children are cute at least...
Substandard dialogue and music can sometimes be forgiven, though not enjoyed . But The Golden Screw is unforgiveably inane because Sankey looked at the world, saw that it was not perfect, and plugged in the easiest wrong answers. Protest songs and rock music are hardly decadent--they represent a social and artistic commitment to our world. They, not "John Henry" are the songs of us folk, as hip Country and Western groups. Sure, folk music is often great and gutsy. But the simplistic Romantic anti-sellout sentiment it symbolizes in this play really equals the willful alienation of Sankey's hero...