Turtles Don't Dream100

A play about the Cino, H.M. KOUTOUKAS’ brilliant, eccentric “Turtles Don’t Dream” played but one notorious night at, of all places, Carnegie Hall. It presented the Caffe as the temple of a “cobra cult” (i.e., amphetamine ring) in danger of running out of the “sacred white powder.” Harry, it seems, hadn’t quite written an ending by opening night, so CHARLES STANLEY came striding down the aisle scattering torn-newspaper confetti as “The Amphetamine Angel.” These photos are from a 1978 revival at Theater for the New City.

A play about the Cino, H.M. KOUTOUKAS’ brilliant, eccentric “Turtles Don’t Dream” played but one notorious night at, of all places, Carnegie Hall. It presented the Caffe as the temple of a “cobra cult” (i.e., amphetamine ring) in danger of running out of the “sacred white powder.” Harry, it seems, hadn’t quite written an ending by opening night, so CHARLES STANLEY came striding down the aisle scattering torn-newspaper confetti as “The Amphetamine Angel.” These photos are from a 1978 revival at Theater for the New City.