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...first and second weekends in December bring another experiment in theatre at Adams House, tentatively entitled Coming and Going. Based on Beckett's Come and Go. Pinter's Landscape, Brown's The Brig and excerpts from the trial of the Chicago 8, the production will evolve through what the initiator calls "communal collage." It is intended very much as a group experience in theatre and will also be free...
...people who come to see a Beckett play will already be aware of his 'message'," Rochman explained. "But a female cast will make them see the characters less as types, more as people. The woman is a kind of obstacle; the audience will have to project through the women to the meaning of the play. They have to realize that a female instead of male cast doesn't matter...
...premiere featured Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in Murray Schisgal's The Typists, a talky tragicomedy about two white-collar mediocrities spilling out the empty cup of their lives. The high night of the season should come next month with Jack MacGowran's readings from Beckett; instead of remounting the show on the stark set designed for its off-Broadway run last year, PBS is spectacularly but improbably staging the work in the Mojave Desert...
...trio of compulsive polyglots, Samuel Beckett (equally fluent in English and French), Vladimir Nabokov (a writer in Russian, English, French and possibly German) and Jorge Luis Borges (whose first work at seven was an English summary of Greek myths) are the men whom Steiner judges to be "the three figures of probable genius in contemporary fiction." Joyce teaching at his Berlitz school he takes as the prototypical modern artist, master of the "lost center." a practitioner of the "literature of exile...
...almost as if Beckett and Pinter put on Hellzapoppin. Everything and nothing seem to happen, yet a considerable amount of atmosphere is conveyed. The dialogue is arch and flat, absurd and witty. Descriptions are precise and at times chastely beautiful. The scatology is consistently outrageous. Yet it is through Clementine's numerous fornications that The Onion Eaters generates its odd life. The book does not have much meaning, only an animal warmth, at once grotesque and touching. Donleavy seems to be saying that this warmth is the only thing about which we can be certain. "To make the stars...