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1961 is the year DORIC WILSON says he saw burly MATT BAYLOR in a dress and lipstick tear telephone books in half in a monologue called "The Civil War." LANFORD WILSON says he saw it in a period that would have to be 1963 or 1964. The official Cino Schedule lists it as 1965. Matt couldn't place it in time. Possibly it was repeated. This photo of Matt in 1967 in a non-Cino play is shared by KEITH CARSEY.

1961 is the year DORIC WILSON says he saw burly MATT BAYLOR in a dress and lipstick tear telephone books in half in a monologue called “The Civil War.” LANFORD WILSON says he saw it in a period that would have to be 1963 or 1964. The official Cino Schedule lists it as 1965. Matt couldn’t place it in time. Possibly it was repeated. This photo of Matt in 1967 in a non-Cino play is shared by KEITH CARSEY.

Program for DORIC WILSON's Adam-and-Eve play features a hundred slang terms for a woman.The Cino had done original plays before, but Doric's prolificity, personality, and talent created a new ambiance and a new audience and in effect, created Off-Off Broadway as it came to be -- the world's first enduring showcase for new plays of a new kind - plays that needed not to woo audiences or critics because they were performed in places -- coffeehouses, churches, bars, bookstores, art galleries -- that made their money otherwise than by theatre -- Thus theatre entered the modern era, as literature, painting, and music had done in Paris a hundred years before.
1961: Review of DORIC WILSON's "Babel, Babel, Little Tower." The play concerned a cop coming into the Cino to close a play. So loyal were the Cino patrons that one night one attacked the actor playing the cop and threw him out of the caffe.
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