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Before the establishment of communist rule, Romania enjoyed an extremely vigorous cultural life. In the pre-communist years it produced such luminaries as: Brancusi in sculpture, Iorga in history, Lipati and Enesco in music, and better-known playwright Ionesco. Today there is a general stifling of creativity and the life of the mind...
After French intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Eugene Ionesco, called for his release, Goma was freed from prison last November and forced to emigrate to France...
...Howells). There was one good line--Ginger said the tidal wave sounded like a "permanent wave"--but I don't remember the old show having a lot of puns, either. The original was so infantile that at times it seemed to belong to a different universe, like an Ionesco play; on reflection one could almost call some of it "inspired." But Rescue was so forced that it just got boring, which is what the old show never...
Then there are the classics. Interested? What's the matter, are you trying to get educated or something? It's true, of course, that this weekend offers two landmark works of twentieth-century drama (Ionesco's brilliantly wacky, Theatre-of-the-Absurd The Bald Soprano and Beckett's masterpiece of nihilism and humanity, Waiting for Godot), but wouldn't you really rather indulge in a little anarchy? If you insist, the Ionesco is at the B.A.G. Lunchtime Theater (267-7196), today, Friday and next Wednesday at 12:10 and 1:10 p.m.; the Beckett is at the Boston Arts Group...
...first Man," is modeled after the Soviet dissidents who came to France in the early seventies. Wandering through a nameless country (perhaps the U.S.), he is jostled by the authorities (the leftists), losing one suitcase to them while his other two grow heavier and heavier (his conscience?). It is Ionesco's most metaphysical and optimistic play, for like the new philosophers it claims that from the ashes of politics will rise a phoenix of art.CrimsonMark Lennihan...