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Most of the exclaves are scarcely worth arguing about-unoccupied meadowlands and swamps or small farms too far into East Germany to be of much practical concern to West Berlin (see map). Two exclaves on the Havel River, Erlengrund (one acre) and Fichtenwiese (nine acres), are the sites of some 150 summer houses or cottages belonging to West Berliners. Homeowners can reach their property for a few hours' outing only through a heavy steel-plated door in the Wall. They must summon a Vopo by pressing a black plastic button beside the door. Then they must cross the sandy...
...MEMORANDUM. While amusing, this fantasy is crossed with currents of chilling reality, in describing a bureaucracy after the introduction of an artificial language. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel's social satire is intelligently mounted at Joseph Papp's Public Theater...
...plays Papp chose for his first season suited his grey color scheme very well, at least as he characterizes them. Papp directed a freewheeling modernization of Hamlet, which he says is about alienation and the question of existence, and Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum, a satire on the evils of selling out and compromise. The Public Theater's artistic director, Gerald Freedman, staged the rock musical Hair, which to Papp is "about loneliness," and Jakov Lind's Ergo, which dealt with guilt for the horrors of World...
...MEMORANDUM. Joseph Papp's latest production is a harrowing parable on the perils of conformity and cowardice. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel has written a nonsensical narrative about an office manager who delivers himself into the clutches of bureaucracy when an official language is introduced into his firm...
...MEMORANDUM. Joseph Papp's latest production is a harrowing parable on the perils of conformity and cowardice. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel has written a nonsensical narrative about an office man ager who delivers himself into the clutches of bureaucracy when an official language is introduced into his firm...