AMERICAN THEATRE

MARK CLAYTON SOUTHERS

FIRST THEATRICAL MEMORY?

I was hired to videotape at Kuntu Rep in 1984, and I was sitting in the back row of the Stephen Collins Foster Memorial Hall with my Betamax running, not paying attention. And then Don Marshall started cussing out God! I was like: It was

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