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...conception of director David Wheeler, The Bald Soprano,by Eugene Ionesco, is neither farcical nor dead serious. Rather, like the hysteria of a madman, it is full of terribly important messages which are difficult to interpret...
...Caretaker" is only the fifth program the Theatre Company of Boston has put on. Its programs this summer (plays, but not the warhorses, by Albee, Ionesco, Beckett, and Genet) and this one are of a sophistication which should prove very attractive to the Cambridge community; fortunately there are student prices at times on Saturday and Sunday. One cannot say what this "Caretaker" will be like without Herlihy, but if it is anywhere near as revealing as the production with him, it will be worth the time and money...
Levin is partial to the kind of playful verbal humor which Eugene Ionesco used brilliantly in The Bald Soprano. Sometimes the dialogue falls flat: "I was trying to catch a fly." "Why?" "Why? Would you have me catch a cold instead?" But more often it is mildly amusing, as when one of the men logically demonstrates that the tree is not a tree. The funniest moment in the play, though, is not verbal at all; it comes when the other man is unable...
...them, in strange and curious ways, beat with a quivering sense of present-day life. The wave of off-Broadway excitement and support for such playwrights as Beckett (Krapp's Last Tape) and Genet (The Balcony) made possible the precarious on-Broadway beachheads of Pinter (The Caretaker) and Ionesco (Rhinoceros). Genet, who is less an absurdist than a perversely erotic symbolist poet of the theater, is a perfect example of the kind of playwright Broadway will still not touch, to its considerable loss. His The Blacks, now well over the 700 mark in performances, is probably the most satisfying...
...Back in Anger, The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey, and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Between times, he has staged Osborne's Luther in the West End, directed Laurence Olivier in the stage version of The Entertainer and Joan Plowright in Ionesco's The Chairs. He made Sanctuary for 20th Century-Fox, and remembers Hollywood with the same distaste that Hollywood reserves for him. His current film project is Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. "This is a holiday film," he says, "a lot of colorful, sexy fun. But anyone...