What are we going to do about this 45 year old play that keeps getting assigned in acting classes?
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I was trying not to listen but you know how it is with actors, you kind of hear them no matter what. These two seemed to be meeting for the first time to work on their assigned scene for their class – a scene from David Rabe’s In the Boom Boom Room.
Do you know this play? If you’re a woman and were in an acting class, you surely encountered it at one point between its premiere in 1973 and… today, apparently. It’s the story of a dancer who finds work in a seedy nightclub. Acting teachers used to assign it a lot. Apparently they still do.
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This is a rebroadcast of Episode 139 from March 2019
Song: Boom Boom Let's Go Back to My Room
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