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Bear with Them
From: The Village Voice
Date: 20070314
Author:Orel, Gwen
The Cave Dwellers
By William Saroyan
The Pearl Theatre Company
80 St. Marks Place
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Bear with Them
A theater shelters actors fallen on hard times
William Saroyan's 1957 drama The Cave Dwellers depicts life's losers, squatting in an abandoned theater. The King (a powerful Robert Hock) and Queen (compellingly played by Carol Schultz) are penniless actors; the Duke (dignified Marcus Naylor) is a failed prizefighter, and the Girl (the winsome Mahira Kakkar) is an unemployed factory worker. Like Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, this play is a poetic indictment of an uncaring ...
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