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FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL by Eugéne Ionesco. 149 pages. Grove...
Most people readily exchange their nightly dreams for what passes as reality in the morning papers. Not Eugéne Ionesco. The celebrated playwright of the absurd prefers to dwell on his own private late late shows...
This collection of Ionesco's memories, thoughts and recollected dreams is strongly reminiscent of his play Rhinoceros, which suggests that there is nothing as real as a dream. Ionesco hangs on to his own dreams with desperate tenacity. He confides the matter of them but resists having their concreteness undermined by explanations. They are what they are, and, most important, they...
THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, an absurd drama about death, July 18-21 and July 25-28; Arthur Miller's autobiographical After the Fall, Aug. 1-4 and 8-11; a play by Günter Grass, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising...
Director Peter Schandorff's production of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist exercise in British suburbia fails to get laughs that are usually pretty hard to avoid with this play. His actors, apparently unaware of much of the script's more subtle humor, work against the lines with an indiscriminate cuteness. Two of the funniest sequences, the exchange of coincidences between a married couple not sure they are married and the fireman's ridiculous tale of "the Headcold," fall dead. In the latter case, the actor actually reads the speech, stifling the spontaneity that is the crux of the joke. Most...