Robert Patrick
Six players in an unidentified Shakespearean play decide to see who can steal the show. The Leading Lady and Leading Man start out trying to out sparkle one another. But jealousy runs rampant and each enlists the aid of bit players. There are two Clowns whose egos outrun their abilities, a Character Man who is supposed to have one scene, but decides that by being a Villain he can become the star. The play is full of outrageous monologues and soliloquies, dynamic confrontations, and a finale that touches the heart and the funnybone at once.
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Robert Patrick (1927-2023), son of migrant workers in the Southwest, wandered at 24 into the Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village during his first half-hour in Manhattan on September 14, 1961. He was for three years an unpaid “temple slave” in that first off-off-Broadway theater w ...
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