Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enter and introduce themselves in monologue. A middle-aged Kennedy devotee speaks only of "Camelot" and Dallas; a veteran tries to make sense of his Vietnam experiences; a young activist traces her life through riots and causes; a homosexual actor laments the "the good old days" of the Village underground; a starlet-turned-prostitute recounts her fourteen years mourning Marilyn Monroe's suicide. The play continues in a series of monologues: paralyzed by depression and doubt, the characters are unable to speak to, or even acknowledge each other...
...have easily degenerated into agitprop; instead it is made a continually probing revelation of period and character. Led by a beautiful, red-haired widow, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, the suffragettes endured ridicule, torture and repeated jailings; several of them were killed. The angriest went underground, accelerating their demands with bombings and trashings. Perhaps fortunately for both sides, World War I broke out. Mrs. Pankhurst wasted no time in exchanging militancy for the more politically rewarding role as a leader of women war workers. Sure enough, by war's end in 1918, a somewhat shamefaced...
Patty maintained that she could remember little that happened while she was on the run after the bank robbery. There was no mention in her account of times or places, such as the apartment in San Francisco, where her underground name, Tania, was found in May 1974 signed to a fiery slogan written on a wall: "Patria O Muerte, Venceremos" (Fatherland or death, we shall overcome). She maintained that she was living in a "fog" and a "perpetual state of terror." Then, recently, she began to experience "lucid intervals," and, wanting to get in touch with her parents, returned...
...mechanism for survival. A helpless captive ends up fusing with the ideas of a group and doing things he or she as an individual would never have done. Life on the run with the S.L.A. was one of constant stress, at war in a hostile country with a friendly underground." West thinks that Patty could make a healthy adjustment to normal life, "depending upon how carefully she is handled by family, friends, doctors, and presumably the courts...
...Poitier's colleagues in the underground is an incompetent Indian dentist who is described as "deeply committed." Comments Caine with a resigned sneer: "A deeply committed Indian dentist? That sounds like all the people I hate at cocktail parties...