Word: absurdistly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other force was Senior Mark Prascak's organization, Undergraduate Histrionics (UGH). Prascak set out to direct interactive plays, staging them in such places as the Adams House swimming pool and among the tables and chairs of the Adams dining hall. Audiences found his confrontational staging and his absurdist revisions of classic plays either inventive or infuriating, but the shows got people talking, even people who hadn't seen them. That is no small achievement, considering that most campus theater productions are seen by few and forgotten by most after their two-weekend runs...
...Mark Prascak, the master of this absurdist fest...
Actually, no. The Tale of Lear, now touring U.S. regional theaters, focuses its innovations more on the play's psyche than on the director's. To be sure, sometimes it is merely idiosyncratic. The nonsense sounds, absurdist gestures and gloomy lighting may have primarily private meaning for Tadashi Suzuki, 48, a leading figure of the international avant-garde, and for the dozen actors from the co-producing ensembles: StageWest in Springfield, Mass., where The Tale of Lear is to run through May 15; Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arena Stage in Washington and Berkeley Repertory Theater in California. But for the most...
...cast proves itself a collection of superb storytellers, and as each runs about playing a multiplicity of roles, their combined performance steers the audience quickly and humorously through Gogol's absurdist terrain...
...territory, for example, and reimagined O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night as caustic tragicomedy rather than lugubrious apocalypse. Andromache is the first offering of a seven-play season, of which Miller will direct five. With characteristic confidence in his polymathic perversity, he has assigned himself an absurdist British comedy, N.F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum; a Jacobean tragedy, Bussy D'Ambois; a Leonard Bernstein musical, Candide, which Miller says "will have more flavor of the original Voltaire"; and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Also on the roster are Reinhold Lenz's The Tutor, adapted by Brecht, and Alexander...