Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
by Don Petersen
Synopsis
THE STORY: The New York Daily News comments: ”With sunny patience, Hal Holbrook plays an English teacher in this rehabilitation center, which is really a prison for young junkies, male and female and black and white.
Al Pacino portrays the most evil of the students—a fidgety, cocky monster if you ever saw one, and he has little chance of being 'cured' and winning a release.
The most tense moments in TIGER come when Pacino visits the establishment's psychiatrist and vilifies and threatens this essentially gentle man.
But the doctor persists until the young inmate tells of a sordid family life and how, after many years, he tracked down his father in a barber shop and beat him… Another good scene is one in which Holbrook's students put on a mad version of Dickens' Christmas Carol at holiday time… TIGER offers several slices of life—but what a life?”
Press Reviews
"The Broadway debut of the author, this powerful, moving play follows a sinister young drug addict—one of many confined in the big city rehabilitation center where the play's always exciting, and often touching, action is centered. “…sharp, abrasive dialogue…searingly dramatic individual scenes…” —The New York Times. “…a thoroughly absorbing and forcefully moving theatrical experience…” —New York Post. “…power, compassion, humor and a fine sense of the dramatic…"
— Newsday (NY)
Publication
Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? is a play written by Don Petersen and published by Dramatists Play Service (1969).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1969
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