Unstructured afternoon...

 got a bang in the head at a bank I was withdrawing money from. Still hurts a bit, but mind as sharp as ever. Any residuals---hope not. 

At the Lincoln Center library, spent much of the time reading Schickel's biography of Kazan. Would have preferred Kazan's autobiography but it was not there. Focused on the three plays that I saw in the late fifities that he directed: Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; MacLeish's JB, and Willians' Sweet Bird of Youth. A very important and defining time for me as a teen-age theater goer---finally got a chance to see "adult"plays, by playwrights whom, when I was younger, I could hear about from my parents, but not see. I remember the excitement I felt when I was planning my trip to see the Inge play. Almost like losing my virginity--a true"event"---I would be totally different when I left the theater. Similarly, Sweet Bird was my first Williams---again, could not, in a way, even believe that I would be let in the theater. I remember these experiences so well--- but what amazes me now is how much detail I remember---as if I could throw myself back into my teen age years---coincidentally the three years I spent at Bronx Science. Ah, more memories

Timmy Everett playing the Jewish cadet in Dark at the Top of the Stairs---Newman, amazing at that matinee of Sweet Bird, and of course, Christopher Plummer's incredibly masculine and crystallized Nickels in JB. Was able to see JB twice---the first time it went somewhat by me---but the second time--late August of 59---a matinee---the show running towards its end--was able to get a cut rate ticket in the second row orchestra side. Wow! The excitement I felt being so close! My senior year at Science about to begin---looking ahead to seeing J again--I had thoght about her all summer---would something really happen between us. She lived on the upper west side---I in the Bronx--that alone was enough to make her desirable. My memory---time has stopped. So many details. 

But what does it all mean now? It is almost upsetting---how full the memory is. 

Write some more---expand---not sure--will have to wait and see.