Word: ionesco
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...This is well and good when the desired effect is close identification with one or two characters, but when there are a large number of almost equally important people moving around the effect is divisive. It is perhaps significant that in its most satisfactory job this year, Jack, by Ionesco, Tufts changed the setting from a dingy room to a circus. This setting placed the audience in a reasonable relationship to the players. Further, the action of the play focuses almost exclusively on Jack...
...first production of the season the Arena Theatre last week presented the New England premiere of two plays by Eugene Ionesco, The Lesson and Jack, or the Submission. Ionesco's major thesis is that people simply are incapable of communication through the medium of language. Words are not understood, or have different meanings to different people. The tragedy of Ionesco's world is that people think words have meaning, try to use them to communicate and, hence, fail completely to know anything or anyone. The language of this world is the cliche and the pun. The normal reply...
Tufts Arena Theatre (Medford): June 30-July 4, Ionesco's "The Lesson" and "Jack"; July 7-11, Goodrich and Hackett's "The Great Big Doorstep"; July 14-18, Glasgow's "Allison's House"; July 21-25, Bagnold's "The Chalk Garden"; July 28-August 1, Ugo Betti's "The Burnt Flowerbed"; August 4-8, Giraudoux' "The Enchanted...
...Brecht first of all, added Ibsen, Pirandello and Wedekind, and commented that "Giraudoux has been not neglected, but so often misinterpreted that it's worse than neglect." Jean Genet to Tynan is "a natural, who shouldn't be imitated... He's a bad model but an interesting artist"; Eugene Ionesco is "bright as a button, but he's not a messiah of the drama...
...professor harangues and finally kills an odd, 17-year-old student (played as winningly by Joan Plowright as she plays the 94-year-old wife in The Chairs). The play perhaps symbolizes how pedantry destroys individuality, but like so much anti-academic satire, runs to academic jokes. Ionesco's seems an agreeable but thin talent, with a kind of philosophic-puppet show appeal...