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2022-06-11 03:32:51

  

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

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