Drama Criticism | Gordone, Charles - No Place To Be Somebody

NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY

PRODUCTION REVIEWS

Clive Barnes (review date 5 May 1969)

SOURCE: A Review of No Place to Be Somebody, in The New York Times, 5 May 1969, p. 53.

[No Place to Be Somebody was written in 1967 and received several workshop performances before it debuted on 4 May 1969 in a production by the New York Shakespeare Festival at their Public Theater. In the following assessment of that production, Barnes expresses reservations about the play's construction but greatly admires the vivid dialogue and realistic acting and sets.]

The New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater is more than just a complex name—it is a complex complex. Apart from Shakespeare in the Park and all that, a new theater in preparation in the Lafayette Street home, where, of course, the Florence Anspacher Theater is situated, there is also the Other Stage.

This, at the bottom of the Lafayette Street building, is the...

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