![]() “Crystal, Alex, I know it’s been a long time since those early days in the Seventies. I wanted to be George Bartenieff,” Robbins said. “George meant the world to me as a young actor. Robbins said Bartenieff “inspired me and others to live his dream, to create outside of the norm, to tell stories that talk about now, this moment.” “He kind of took the actors with him that were in the cast and encouraged us all to have fun with the subversive street theater that we were doing.” And he was generous and funny, a great actor that saw the worth in everyone, even a novice 13-year-old like me,” Robbins said via video. Robbins, via a video tribute shown at a recent memorial to Bartenieff at Theater for the New City in the East Village, talked about his mentor’s grace and wisdom, as Bartenieff, Crystal Field and TNC steered him to theater and gave him a stage. “I was a 13-year-old, looking at that and wanting to be that.” “At the time, he seemed to possess the answers - aside from his incredible talent as an actor,” Robbins said. Robbins recently looked back on those days as among his first steps on stage and a time when he truly discovered theater. BY CLAUDE SOLNIK | Back in the 1970s, Crystal Field cast an adolescent Tim Robbins as gang member in a street theater play in which George Bartenieff played a kind of junkie mystic. ![]()
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