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...production of LeRoi Jones' Slaveship was so successful that it moved to off-Broadway after its three-week Brooklyn run. The same thing happened to a 1971-72 production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and a 1973 Academy staging of Jean Genet's The Screens. Lichtenstein has also brought in a wide variety of visiting theatrical attractions, from Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theater Lab to the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey to the Peter Brook-Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which appeared following a Broadway...
...like hubris (head-spinning pride) and catharsis (purgation by pity and terror) begin to assume a certain noble abstractness. A sense of transcendental symmetry emerges, and on cue, a stately chorus preaches its final sermon of moderation to all those really excessive heroes. "Greek tragedy, my dear, decorum," Jean Genet wrote sarcastically in The Blacks. "The ultimate gesture is performed offstage...
Violette Leduc's death last month was not accompanied by any of the usual obsequies reserved for Literary Figures. Genet has made no great show of his mourning: Stephen Spender has not lamented her passing in the New York Review: Wilfrid Sheed has not given her a page of print in the Times Book Review. I first learned of her death a week ago while reading a dated issue of Time in a doctor's waiting room. She was a rejected in death as she had been all her life...
...unflinching sincerity, as though there were no one listening", made her autobiographies. Le Batarde and Mad in Pursuit, at once fascinating and embarassing, forcing the reader into the stance of a literary voyeur, unable to put down the sordid but compelling story of her psychotic, unrequited passion for Genet, of her lesbianism, and her complete despair. No human being has ever been more lonely than Violette Leduc...
Leduc's fantasies were intense and overpowering, whether they took the form of her novels or of her personal struggle for the affection of Jean Genet--a man who could not have been less interested in her. In The Taxi, she has brought her fantasy life to a new peak, acting out simultaneously the destruction of the incest taboo and the triumph of a form of Oedipal desire--during copulation the boy contemplates the destruction of his parents so that he may spend the rest of his life in the act of love with his sister. Leduc's talent...