Juan and John
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 1, 2009
Closed Dec 20, 2009
Opened Dec 1, 2009
Closed Dec 20, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
It's 1965 and there's a riot going on. Watts and Vietnam are burning. So is La Republica Dominicana. In San Francisco, it's the Giants vs. the Dodgers. Juan Marichal vs. John Roseboro. Cain vs. Abel. Roger Guenveur Smith and Marc Anthony Thompson, the Obie-winning creators of A Huey P. Newton Story, return to The Public with new work inspired by ancient themes: rage, retribution, and redemption.
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When you realize the Juan of Roger Guenveur Smith's Juan and John, now at the Public Theater, is former San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal and the John is Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro and that the dramatic incident linking them is the beating the former gave the latter with a baseball bat on August 22, 1965, you'll assume this new solo show is about baseball.
You'll be right, but you won't recognize until some time into the ultimately extremely moving 75-minute intermissionless monologue that Smith is offering much more than a middle-aged man's recollection of his boyhood obsession with the great American pastime and the disillusioning effect one of its uglier moments[...]