Bolling Gary (2 results)
Published by Red Deer College Press, Red Deer 1974
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, CanadaAttic Books (ABAC, ILAB)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 70 p. 24 cm. Paper covered boards. Light wear to extremities.
Published by St. Marks Playhouse New York, NY 1964
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.Specific Object / David Platzker
Contact seller5-star seller[1] pp.; 35.5 x 21.5 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Single-sided program for performances of two plays by Le Roi Jones [sic] [Imamu Amiri Baraka] held at St. Marks Playhouse, [December 1964]. Presented by Leo Garen and Stan Swerdlow in association with Gene Persson and Rita F…redricks. Directed by Leo Garen and designed by Larry Rivers, with lighting by Harold Baldridge. Production stage manager - Ed Cambridge. Cast for "The Toilet" includes Gary Bolling, Norman Bush, Hampton Clanton, Antonio Fargas, Bostic Van Felton, Gary Haynes, Tony Hudson, Walter Jones, D'urville Martin, Jaime Sanchez, and James Spruill. Cast for "The Slave" includes Nan Martin, Jerome Raphel, and Al Freeman, Jr. "LEROI JONES is one of the angriest writers to storm the theater?and one of the most gifted. On the evidence of his new one-acters, ?The Slave? and ?The Toilet,? one wonders whether his rage is not at war with his instincts as an artist. In both halves of the double bill, which opened last night at the St. Marks Playhouse, Mr. Jones has exciting and moving things to say. Once again, as in ?Dutchman,? he discloses a sure grasp of the theatrical image. But he cannot resist the urge to shock by invoking violence and all the obscenities he can think of. There are times when these shock tactics perform no useful dramatic function, when they clarify no meaning, when they merely set up needless resistance to what the play is saying. When Mr. Jones sets out to be literal, he is about as unsubtle as the law will allow. ?The Toilet? occurs in a toilet of a boys' high school. Larry Rivers has obliged the author by designing a retreat with all the equipment you would find in a men's room. Leo Garen has staged the opening moments of the play to indicate realistic use of the equipment. Mr. Jones and his colleagues apparently assume that nothing can be left to an audience's imagination." -- Howard Taubman, "Theater: An Angry Man ?Slave? and ?Toilet? by LeRoi Jones Open," New York Times, December 17, 1964. Good. Yellowing of edges. Tears measuring 1.5 cm. on left edge at center and 1 cm. on right edge. Folded horizontally into quarters. Clean and unmarked.
