Carter, Curtis

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Marquette Universitye-Publications@MarquettePhilosophy Faculty Research and Publications Philosophy, Department of11-10-1971People seek 'place' in Pabst play [Review of CharlesGordone's play "No Place to Be Somebody" at thePabst Theater, Milwaukee]Curtis CarterMarquette University, curtis.carter@marquette.eduCarter, Curtis. 1971. People seek 'place' in Pabst play. Bugle American, November 10-17,Entertainment Section, Vol. 2 No. 37 (No. 50).u IIUIlU ..... n ......... III .. IIIIIIIII ................. III .. 1I1I1I1I1I1I1I11I1I1I01I1I1I1I1I1111111" I" 111111111111111111111111111111111 U IIIIIIIII~ 111111111111111111111111 .. 111111 .. U 1ltllllllllllllllllU 11111111111 ~lIlInn 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Uilil UIII;"~ 1".lllllllll~l.r '. People seek 'place' In Pabst play time hoodlums. The lines are clever is shocked to hear his friend advise him throughout, dealing, with the struggle of to give up his ambition and do some-Charles Gordone's Pulitzer prize dra- the characters to find a place. :rhe thing more worthwhile. Johnny does not rna, No Place to B~ Somebody, opened acting is of fme quality, allowing each heed the advice and is carried over his Monday night at the Pabst Theater un- character to develop a distinctive per- head into the intricacies of the mob ac-der the sponsorship of the Milwaukee sonality that unfolds as the play pro- tivith~s. His attempt to use the filesof Inner City Arts Council, for a five day ceeds. - a judge's daughte! to "move in" are in-by Curtis l. Carter run. Johnny, the black proprietor of the effective. No Place happens ina New York bar bar, is obsessed with making it in the A complex character, Johnny shows which hardly ever has customers, but is realm of big time crime. He waits ten kindness to his the meeting .p~ace for s~ruggling actors, years for his boyhood idol, a minor friend who. works for hi~ as. a p~osti-dancers, mUSICIans, prostItutes, and small gangster, to return from prison, and tute. He IS generous WIth hIS fnends 1111 •• 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII111111110111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 while pretending not to respect their artistic aspirations. In a crisis it is Johnny who is able to give support and understanding, as when Shanty, his bar-tender is unable to face the fact that his aspirations about playing drums are real, ly no more than dreams. --Count Stovall, playing the part of a young actor (Gabe), Bob Molock as an aspiring dancer - he falls on the stage in his great moment as a dancer -and Yvonne Sutherland as Cora, are excep-tional in their contribution to the over-all humor of the performance. Gabe de-livers a near show-stopping satire on blacks trying to be "clean and white." The best thing about "No Place" is its su'ccess in creating characters who are not stereotypes. They are real, believa-ble people who tell much more than their OWJl life stories. They show suf-fering, struggle, aspiration and thwarted ambition with perceptive insight. Gordone, a black playwright, i~ the first to receive the Pulitzer prize for an off broadway play. The New York production ran for 572 p'erformances. 

People seek \u27place\u27 in Pabst play [Review of Charles Gordone\u27s play  No Place to Be Somebody  at the Pabst Theater, Milwaukee]

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People seek \u27place\u27 in Pabst play [Review of Charles Gordone\u27s play No Place to Be Somebody at the Pabst Theater, Milwaukee]

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