Today's post marks the debut of the play The Shadow Box. It opened at the Morosco Theatre in New York, the play ran for over 300 showings and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony for Best Play.
Written by actor Michael Cristofer, the play is about a trio of terminal patients being interviewed for some psychological experiment. In exchange for being interviewed, the patients and their families get to stay in cabins at their local hospital.
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| The playwright, Michael Cristofer today. |
The Shadow Box is noted for nobody in the play dying, nor any sort of poignant character development being made by any of the characters. It's a classic character study- plain and simple.
I've never seen the Shadow Box. But the play is noted for it's use of monologue and raw emotion. That's probably why it won so many awards!
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| TV Guide ad for the TV movie adaptation ABC, 1980. |
Well. that's all for my look at 1977 for today. But before I go, here's a clip of one of the play's monologues. This one is performed by Alberto Frezza at the LaValle Actors Studio.
Enjoy...
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