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...Scene from Kaspar. Directed by Tom Wright. At the Loeb Ex, February 19-21, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets available free at the box office the afternoon preceding each performance...
There is one bit of novelty in Every Man. The actor who plays Kaspar Hauser, the lead role, is billed only as "Bruno S." "S." was plucked by Director Herzog from an asylum be cause his own case history paralleled the Hauser story so closely. Such a stroke of casting is consistent with Herzog's previous work, which includes a film entirely populated by dwarfs. These works were also defended as metaphors for modern Germany. Some fresh excuses are needed...
...EVENING'S BORING segment comes with the play by Handke, who is now enjoying popularity on the New York stage with his longer and presumably more interesting Kaspar. Here four white figures emerge beneath what appears to be a giant morning glory about to devour the piano. Each announces, "I came into the world..." and begins a work which consists of nothing but confessional sentences beginning with "I." Amid a set that looks like Design Research kindergarten toys, the actors deliver such lines as "I learned to distinguish between nouns and verbs," "I appropriated property in disregard of the general...
...literature is fantastically alive-extremely radical, anything goes. The writers feel responsible for the omissions of the past-what Daddy did during the Nazi period. German theater and German poetry are also alive and crackling," says Steiner, citing the work of Peter Handke, 30, whose baffling, audience-infuriating plays (Kaspar, Offending the Audience) are not so much theatrical dramas as experiments with new language forms. "Also, Peter Weiss's theater of cruelty (Marat/Sade, The Investigation) will probably come to be seen as an experiment of enduring change." Among poets...
Truth & Beauty. The Middle Ages depicted the Magi as three kings, and even gave them sonorous, Eastern-sounding names-Kaspar, Melchior and Balthasar. In fact, the "kings" are as imaginary as their names. The Magi were simply astrologer-priests, possibly from Babylon, and their number is uncertain; early paintings of the Christmas scene show anywhere from two to seven of them. Scholars are divided about the origin and meaning of the star that lured them to Bethlehem. Many critics dismiss Matthew's account of it as pure myth; Smit believes that the star actually was a major conjunction...