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Conversation

1

Narrator

Listen

to

a

conversation

between

a

student

and

a

librarian.

Librarian

Can

I

help

you?

Student

Yeah,

I

need

to

find

a

review.

It’s

for

my

English

class.

We

have

to

find

reviews

of

the

play

we

are

reading.

But

they

have

to

be

from

when

the

play

was

first

performed,

so

I

need

to

know

when

that

was

and

I

suppose

I

should

start

with

newspaper

reviews

and…

Librarian

Contemporary

reviews.

Student

Sorry?

Librarian

You

want

contemporary

reviews.

What’s

the

name

of

the

play?

Student

It’s

Happy

Strangers.

It

was

written

in

1962

and

we

are

supposed

to

write

about

its

influence

on

American

theatre

and

show

why

it’s

been

so

important.

Librarian

Well,

that

certainly

explains

why

your

professor

wants

you

to

read

some

of

those

old

reviews.

The

critiques

really

tore

the

play

to

pieces

when

it

opened.

It’s

so

controversial.

Nobody

had

ever

seen

anything

like

it

on

the

stage.

Student

Really?

Is

that

a

big

deal?

Librarian

Oh,

sure.

Of

course

the

critics’

reaction

made

some

people

kind

of

curious

about

it.

They

wanted

to

see

what

was

causing

all

the

fuss.

In

fact,

we

were

on

vacation

in

New

York.

Oh,

I

had

to

be,

oh,

around

16

or

so,

and

my

parents

took

me

to

see

it.

That

would’ve

been

about

1965.

Student

So

that

was

the

year

it

ed?

Great!

But

uh,

newspapers

from

back

then

aren’t

online,

so,

how

do

I…

Librarian

Well,

we

have

copies

of

old

newspapers

in

the

basement,

and

all

the

major

papers

publish

reference

guides

to

their

articles,

reviews,

etc.

You

will

find

them

in

the

reference

stacks

in

the

back.

But

I

start

with

1964,

I

think

the

play

had

been

running

for

a

little

while

when

I

saw

it.

Student

How

do

you

like

it?

I

mean

just

two

characters

on

the

stage

hanging

around

basically

doing

nothing.

Librarian

Well,

I

was

impressed.

The

actors

were

famous,

and

besides

it

was

my

first

time

in

a

real

theatre.

But

you

are