(In an odd coincidence, revered fellow nutcase Judith Malina is still quite alive enough to have just staged a revival of “The Connection” w/ the Living Theater. What a world, what a world!)

Personally I’m too young ever to have seen O’Horgan’s work in person (except for his dreadful film adaptation of “Rhinoceros”), but like Grotowski (whose stuff I finally saw on bad videotape years after his death — what a revelation!) it’s always seemed strangely familiar because of its influence. Forget Hair and Superstar — to me O’Horgan will always be the fearless leader of the Great Jones company when they were really heroically zany. …Although Andrei Serban, whose magnificent “Fragments of a Trilogy” I *have* seen on numerous occasions, must share that mantle. (And of course Ellen Stewart herself.) So long Tom, we’ll have a drink or five over at Phoebe’s in your honor (even though it’s not even called that anymore…)

Tom Paine came from afar, afar,
His nose is like a blazing star,
He stirred the country round and round,
And turned the whole world upside down.

(In an odd coincidence, revered fellow nutcase Judith Malina is still quite alive enough to have just staged a revival of “The Connection” w/ the Living Theater. What a world, what a world!)

Personally I’m too young ever to have seen O’Horgan’s work in person (except for his dreadful film adaptation of “Rhinoceros”), but like Grotowski (whose stuff I finally saw on bad videotape years after his death — what a revelation!) it’s always seemed strangely familiar because of its influence. Forget Hair and Superstar — to me O’Horgan will always be the fearless leader of the Great Jones company when they were really heroically zany. …Although Andrei Serban, whose magnificent “Fragments of a Trilogy” I *have* seen on numerous occasions, must share that mantle. (And of course Ellen Stewart herself.) So long Tom, we’ll have a drink or five over at Phoebe’s in your honor (even though it’s not even called that anymore…)

Tom Paine came from afar, afar,
His nose is like a blazing star,
He stirred the country round and round,
And turned the whole world upside down.

Paul Burns RWDBs for breakfast etc!

Wouldn’t have picked you for a Cave fan. Did you catch Grinderman too? If you were up the hill early enough on Friday you might even have seen little ol’ me.

/shameless self-promotion