Word: absurdities
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...Your story "The Pleasures of Dying" [Dec. 4] was unbelievably absurd. A morbid comment on human curiosity. What of possible importance can all that scientific research produce? Once you've made the jump, you're gone. Granted, it certainly is a relief to know that Stage 2 is an upper: but by that time, who cares...
...drama are indebted to your invaluable T.E. Kalem for finally concluding that the plays of Samuel Beckett are a "rum show." Would that he could convince producers, other members of his profession, little-theater boards of directors and, especially, the snobs of college drama departments that making the absurd absurd is absurd...
...also been unwilling to hear arguments on the question of boys' refusal to cut their hair. But this issue has prompted case after case, fought out in state and federal courts across the country, and in about half of them long hair has won legal protection. The seemingly absurd constitutional controversy has been an important wedge in support of students' rights...
...situation is absurd, of course, and not made any less so because Shaffer knows it and to some extent plays on it. Surprise and considerable theatrical skill are what Sleuth offers; yet its surprises, harking back again to the golden age, are of a singularly artificial and engineered kind. Shaffer is a better writer by yards than, say, Christie; yet Sleuth is finally undone by the same problems as beset those musty standards, Ten Little Indians or The Mousetrap. Such works tease and divert; yet there is always a feeling of having been a little cheated after the curtain falls...
Alica Cooper is another step, or perhaps the culmination of the trend towards a more theater-oriented rock. Kopkind stumbled inadvertently on the core of the matter when he stated, "Cooper belongs to the Theater of the Absurd as well as the Theater of Cruelty." The second label is debatable alone, but Kopkind undercuts his statement with the clause that follows, "with live warm humans around in a concert hall, Cooper is funnier than he is scary...