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TPO 4 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 critiques’ reaction made some people kind of curious
about it. They wanted to see what’s causing all the fuss. In fact, we were on
vacation in New York. Oh, I had to be, eh, around 16 or so, and my parents
took me to see it. That would’ve been about 1965.

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Student
So that was the year premier, great, but eh, newspaper from back then weren’t
online, so, how do I…

Librarian
Well, we have copies of all the 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, so 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 hangi