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Performance artist MILAN KOHOUT talks about his work with the Roma people (Gypsies) of the Czech Republic at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, at Mobius, 354 Congress St., Boston. For more information, call...
...flying and flowing," a performance by David Franklin and Milan Kohout...
CAHOOT'S MACBETH also has its clever moments. Stoppard wrote the play under the direction of Czechoslovakian playwright Pavel Kohout, who experienced the decade of "normalization" following the fall of the Dubcek government in his country. During this period, the government prevented many people, including actors, from pursuing their careers. This repression provides the context for the second play...
What is intriguing about Kohout's characters is not their present status as executioners, but their past: they are not aberrations or monsters, but the perfect products of their society. And their society...
...until the end of the book do we realize the intricacy of Kohout's style. By leading us with anecdotes and facts about methods of inflicting pain, and by tempting us with the logic of killing, Kohout has made us his characters' accomplices. We find ourselves in the same position as Lizinka's father, who, originally opposed to her planned course of study, at the end accepts Wolf as a future son-in-law. By our interest in Kohout's society and our inactivity in our own, we remove ourselves from our humanity...