Word: ionesco
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...three offerings thus far this season: Pantagleize, a fantastic farce by the Belgian Michel de Ghelderode; Exit the King, Ionesco's stark philosophical play about death; and The Show Off, George Kelly's domestic drama of 1924. A pleasing dramatic palette...
...that Harper's Bazaar "has become less literary and more topical" [Feb. 24]. Yet among the authors appearing since Nancy White became the editor in chief are Cyril Connolly, Jean Genet, Robert Musil, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene Ionesco, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Lowell, Jorge Luis Borges, Heinrich Böll, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Francoíse Mallet-Joris, Pierre Gascar...
...assumption behind director Alan King's effort is that Ionesco is a fuddy-duddy playwright. True, his Rhinoceros sketches the transformation of all humans, save one, into grumpy beasts, but then readers of daily newspapers have long predicted such things. Besides, Ionesco calls for realistic sets and the stale old division of a play into acts and scenes...
...sound effects, chiefly rock and roll and assorted grunts, are handled clumsily. The lighting is barbarously simple, which can be expected in a House production, but it lets be seen what good there is to see: Ionesco scintillating, Odell acting and the whole set growing...
...professor, Tambor undergoes a gradual, but very definite, transformation. At the start he is all bungling whimsy in the Ionesco tradition. By the end he has gone into and emerged from a villainous trance. Yet all the while Tambor maintains the academic quality suggested by his long, white, fake hair...