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...return to the conventional, there are two concerts this week which in their own way are as non-conformist as the contemporary ones. The Boston University School of Music Opera Workshop is staging "La Calisto," an opera in three acts by Francesca Caralli, conducted by Warren George Wilson, "La Calisto" is an Arcadian myth of gods, satyrs, wood nymphs and who knows what else, and has been called "a significant part of the current Baroque opera revival," which makes it curious in itself. Catch the wood nymphs next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the BU Theatre, 269 Huntington Ave., Boston...
...become hooves; a horn sprouts menacingly from the forehead. Finally, a few angry grunts...voila, a rhinoceros. Thus does Eugene Ionesco give birth to his favorite symbol of modern "bourgeois" man. When, in Rhinoceros, the creature starts multiplying into a nasty herd, you have the beginning of an ugly, conformist and "sloganized" society that has become the playwright's chief target for over two decades of political and theatrical writing...
Ionesco has always remained astray from the "herd." A staunch anti-conformist, he sees the individual artist, and not politics, as the vehicle for genuine social change. He remains resolutely opposed to politically "committed" theatre and, since 1960, has proclaimed himself a "right-winged anarchist" critical of any form of government whatsoever, especially of the disciplined structure of a socialist society...
...Sings, the Other Doesn't. This is a nice film about women's liberation. But nice is unfortunately all. Yes, it does tell the story of two likeable and very different women, a wild-haired non-conformist pop singer (Valerie Mairess) and a reserved, soulful-eyed young mother (Therese Liotard) devoted to her two children. Yes, it does portray the lasting, supportive friendship between the two in a way that few films have examined women's relationships before, since movies have largely been a man's medium and most male directors don't have that experience to draw...
...dong The Fantastiks, that longest running of musicals where the characters, a boy and girl who live next door, look far and wide for love only to conclude that there's no place like home. Lowell will probably be producing A Thousand Clowns, that irrepressible story about a non-conformist who hates to work but does it anyway in order to retain custody of the nephew he loves. North House might be producing Clay, an original play by a Harvard tutor that takes place in Memphis days before the assassination of Martin Luther King. Signs have just gone...