Arcadia has opened

Arcadia has opened and been reviewed.  In the NY Times, Ben Brantley wrote "entirely terrific", "propelled by genuine, panting passion," and in the New Yorker, Hilton Als: "there is no emotional truth at stake because there are no true characters", "there is no passion; people screw, but less to connect than to generate even more witty material".  Maybe they saw it on different nights?
Interesting American Masters piece on Zora Neale Hirston.  She wrote a number of novels that are well respected but more interestingly she recorded folk tales, music and the culture of southern African American life.  One film clip was of young children playing games.  That got me to thinking of all the games we played as children that you don't see anymore.  At least I don't see today's kids playing: stoop ball, stick ball, ringaleevio, hide and seek, red light-green light, jump rope, pick up sticks, hop-scotch and all the others that I have probably forgotten.  These were all group games.  In many you needed six or more players and there was a hierarchy that came from these games.  Janis Ian has a great song about being an outsider in the culture and being picked last for a game.  But you got picked.  You had a role to play.  They needed you and maybe this time you could shine, perhaps be the Alli-Alli in free guy and free all your captured team mates. 
From Zora Neale Hirston, "Yes I've experienced segregation, but I was never angry about it, only perplexed.  Why would someone deny themselves the pleasure of my company?"    
She grew up in an all black community in Florida, where her father was Mayor 3 times.