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Newly relaxed censorship restrictions now open the way for distribution of Havel's essays and plays, which are often likened to the absurdist works of Ionesco and Beckett. What Czechoslovaks will discover is a painstaking attention to the elaborate web of falsification that for so long enabled a despised leadership to maintain its grip. Havel's work depicts the idiocy of entrenched bureaucracies and the power of language to twist and distort ideas. It also highlights the unwitting complicity of ordinary citizens in the maintenance of totalitarian regimes. "Everyone is in fact involved and enslaved," Havel once told TIME. "Each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Conscience of Prague | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

BEFORE The Bald Magic Hamlet begins, director Mark Prascak explains that his adaptation--which combines Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Shakespeare's Hamlet-- means to show that the plays are related through "parallel mythic structures" and that the three authors were probably drunk "and you should be too." Then he offers each member of the audience a beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage Door | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

...Glenn Ross amid the trees in Currier's dining hall, but he ended up putting it on in Currier's nearby Fishbowl. This year, the trees are gone, but Prascak gets his wish, as the dining hall will be the site of his musical adaptation of three works: Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Shakespeare's Hamle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPENING THIS WEEK | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...most French citizens, Le Pen's triumph was cause for a certain amount of embarrassment and concern. Said Rumanian-born French Playwright Eugene Ionesco: "It is unacceptable and shameful for a country like France and for people like the French. Enough is enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Down to a Fighting Finish | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...wildly asserts a parallel with Ionesco and the Theater of the Absurd...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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