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Custer, by Robert Ingram, The Drury Theatre 1980
With the ever-present Sharon Bicknell. That's Jims Kisicki and Richards looking on.
The author came to a talk-back near the end of the run in Cleveland. He fielded a number of questions, but he had one himself: "Why did we use that version?" It seems he had done extensive rewriting, none of which his agent had bothered to pass along. So many of the things we struggled with (and made work, by the way) had been changed. What we had there was a failure to communicate. When we did the revival at Chatauqua, during a "seminar" in one of the little discussion amphitheatres, an older Native American woman came up to me and related a story that she said was common knowledge among her people: Custer was roaring drunk at Little Big Horn! All the puffery notwithstanding, Custer didn't go down fighting, he fell down drunk! A fascinating portayal that still haunts me lo these many years later. |
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