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Using material from the black poets and playwrights like Melvin Van Peebles and Ed Bullins, the Bedford group flourished where other groups had failed because, says Steward, "they used to visit with plays that just didn't relate. The great majority of prisoners are black and Puerto Rican ghetto citizens-they want a play about what they left and what they are going back...
...Family is a tightly knit repertory troupe-18 actors, musicians and playwrights-who, in addition to touring prisons, are currently staging an off-Broadway hit, Short Eyes, at Joseph Papp's New York Public Theater. A year ago, most of them were inmates in New York prisons. Kenny Steward, 32, ex-drug addict, spent 16 years in and out of jail cells as he progressed from parking-meter pilfering to armed robbery. Tito Goya, 22, The Family's composer, scaled his way through prison and music simultaneously. At 17 in Comstock, he learned piano and guitar...
...began to be released, Camillo met them at the gate, and The Family was born. Since then they have performed in churches, high schools, the streets. In between, Camillo has often manufactured rehearsals just to keep everyone working. "Most of us lived with our parents," says Steward. "Between our mothers and Marvin, we scraped along...
...team plans to compete next year, Steward said. Currently they practice once a week for only 20 minutes...
...Steward said that she had talked to some Radcliffe women who wanted to play next year. "If there are enough of them to form a team, Harvard will have to give us more ice time," she said...