Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here). The struggle of the two theses moves with the dialogue into the minds of each member of the audience. They wage war; the dialectical revolution, spoken of in the play as "the revolution which burns up everything in blinding brightness, will only last as long as a lighting flash...
THAT lightning flash is the dialectical synthesis of the opposing forces. In terms of the play, if the struggle of the two is the hinge on which the play turns, then a synthesis could come only after the play's scripted close. For it must be qualitatively a different experience; on a higher level than either of the original opposites...
...cloud of confetti blew into the air. Grimm doffed his cap. A groom led him over to the paddock where he posed for a picture with two squirming little girls in yellow Easter dresses. Flash, and it was over...
...deviates entirely from the novel at the end, as the Doctor and Jake throw his lover's body into the middle of a lake from a rowboat. The viewer realizes that he too has been left stranded in a rowboat in the middle of nowhere as the final words flash across the screen-appropriately, if somewhat trite: End ... of the Road...
Poignant Atrocity. The morbid embrace is but one flash in a carnival of images on the single Lenten theme with which lonesco and Director Karl Heinz Stroux hold the audience alternately uneasy and tittering for two unbroken hours. Death, along with madness, is the heartland of the absurd today, recalling how, three and four centuries ago, the dance of death, along with the ship of fools, was the obsession of so much European painting and writing. For The Triumph of Death, lonesco reaches not only to Albert Camus, but also back to the Bruegel painting that bears the same title...