Word: storeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marion Storey '78-2 had a view of Boonesville from the outside. Two good friends of hers, whom she had known since the third grade, were attending the University of Colorado. The two were sisters and the oldest, Kathy, had taken a term off to travel in San Francisco and Berkeley. She got involved with the Creative Community Project, and her sister Sara got worried and went to visit her there. When she arrived, she also became caught up in Boonesville. Marion found out about this through their letters, and soon her friend Sara was trying...
Meanwhile their mother was worried about daughter Kathy, but did not even know that her younger daughter had also decided to join the Unification Church. She obtained the services of a deprogrammer from Ohio and got Storey to fly out with her to California. They were hoping that Storey would arrange a meeting outside the farm with her friends, so that they could put them through deprogramming. Their mother had gotten a legal writ giving her custody of her children for thirty days. They ended up meeting twice in Boonesville, however, since neither of the girls would consent to meet...
LIFE CLASS. In the drab, chilly setting of a mingy government-sponsored art class, British Playwright David Storey sounds a muted dirge for a dying civilization...
These two brands of comedy are what Comedians, a scathingly funny, perceptively angry and warmly humane play is all about. Those who have relished the plays of David Storey, particularly The Changing Room, will feel immediately at home with Fellow Briton Trevor Griffiths' characters. Six Man chester men with paltry jobs aspire to be entertainers in workingmen's clubs, with a possible whack at the London big time. Each act is one leg of a tripod - final warmup, audition, postmortem...
...course, he has two perfect actors for it in Gielgud and Richardson, and Director Peter Hall never misses a nuance or a climax. Whenever Gielgud and Richardson play together, the evening becomes memorable. It was so in David Storey's Home and it is so now. Flawless timing, intuitive ensemble work, a mastery of gesture from antic toe to arching eyebrow, and marvelously contrasting voices, Gielgud's rippling clarinet and Richardson's booming bass viol-they have it all. May some guardian angel of drama protect and preserve them in our midst...