Theater
August, 1969
Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody is a powerful, personal, highly particular but highly relevant play and a kind of black black comedy. Set in a bar in Greenwich Village, with its assortment of curious characters--whores, crooks, coeds, cops--wandering in and out, it evokes memories of Saroyan and O'Neill. Gordone has, like Saroyan, a fine feel for character and for humorous detail and, like O'Neill, a feel for dramatic collision. But his milieu is a thing apart. The owner of the bar is...
