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Shakespeare provided not only Papp's personal lodestone, but the beginning of the Public Theater, which he started in 1953 in a Presbyterian church on East Sixth Street as the Shakespeare Workshop. "It was hard enough to imagine we could get any audience for Shakespeare down there at all," says Bernard Gersten, Papp's second in command, "let alone charge money for it. Romeo and Juliet? Theater? What's that?" he asks with an illustrative shrug of the shoulders. "At least we could get people in with the word 'free.' " The original budget: $750. What...
...terminal-cancer case were doubtless among the revelers-if indeed they existed. FBI agents last week interviewed a student at Manhattan's Hunter College. One day before the Q.E. 2 was threatened, as it happened, her creative-writing workshop had discussed a short story she had written about a woman cancer victim and her friend, a male proofreader, who sail aboard the Queen and threaten to blow it up unless a famous diamond is surrendered to them. Wondering if life had imitated art with curious proximity, agents began checking out the workshop members...
...London's Aldwych Theater, the Natal Theater Workshop Company had one of the hits of the season with a Zulu version of Macbeth titled Umabatha. Princess Margaret paid her royal respects to the cast, and any scandal sniffers tempted to read significance into the sometime absence of her husband, Lord Snowdon, might well be discouraged by the catalogue of false rumors about her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, culled from the French press by Jean Marcilly, ex-editor in chief of France Dimanche. In Marcilly's survey, French papers have had the Queen pregnant 92 times, with nine miscarriages...
...Tungching People's Commune near Nanking has a farm implements workshop where homemade steel is produced for tractor harrow blades. Even though the Nanking Iron and Steel Works plant is less than five miles away, the commune insisted on making its own steel as part of the drive for self-reliance...
...Jazz Workshop, 733 Boylston St., Boston. 9:30 weeknights: Darius Brubeck...