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T H E AT R E R E V I E W S Misery Loves Company SJ: Review of Act Without Words II in Manhattan Theatre Alley is a relic of New York City's past, when the dark, dank passageways of lower Manhattan were filled with horrible smells, laundry dangling from fire escapes, and echoes from the inside of tenement apartments where immigrant families lived choc-a-block. Today, in spic and span, post-Giuliani, post-9/11, `if you see something, say something' New York, it is nearly impossible to find traces of the grubby lives led by the people who came to the city by the millions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with nothing in their pockets. It can even be difficult to find evidence of the misery and suffering of New York City's currently estimated 43,000 homeless; the `clean up' of the city has meant that it is now possible to pass a day or more without seeing a member of this population on the subway or on the street. It is therefore tempting to ignore the presence and history of these miseries, but Company SJ was in Theatre Alley in July 2012 performing Samuel Beckett's Act Without
Journal of Beckett Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2013
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