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That a half-century of American literary studies could be recalled for a defective platitude is a contingency that would appeal to Playwright Eugene Ionesco. A major contributor to the theater of the absurd (he prefers the term "theater of derision"), Ionesco reviews the influence of surrealists and dadaists without missing the historical joke: "They all wanted to destroy culture . . . and now they're part of our heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon...
Written by Eugene Ionesco...
MOTORIZED BROOMSTICKS, decapitated balloon-heads, hitchhiking warlords... Once again Shakespeare has been made an unwitting accomplice to the theater of the absurd, this time in Ionesco's Macbett...
...Lesson and The Gap: by Eugene Ionesco, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, Thursday through Saturday, 7:30, Saturday matinee...
...Lesson and The Gap: by Eugene Ionesco, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, Thursday through Saturday, 7:30, Saturday matinee...