Word: lonesco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashionable Boulevard Magheru, and even top party people can be seen carting home a nonobjective painting. Kafka is all the rage, and more American movies than Russian are running in Bucharest's cinemas; the Broadway play Rhinoceros was a theater season sellout, and not just because lonesco is a Rumanian. Last week, as if for the edification of his distinguished guests, Ceausescu permitted Western newspapers to go on public sale for the first time-excepting of course Paris' Le Monde, which has been available for some months to the East's Gaullists...
...popped, a yellow umbrella flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside and the roof and walls caved in to illustrate lonesco's philosophy that life is absurd. Electrically powered kinetic sculpture...
What heartened the sponsors most was the phenomenal public interest in a city of 530,000. About 150,000 people saw the art exhibit, 3,000 attended the U.S. premiere of the four lonesco one-act plays, 6,500 listened to the concerts. Says Albright-Knox Director Gordon Smith: "Buffalo was ready for this sort of avant-garde show...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: THE GLASS MENAGERIE (2 LPs: Caedmon). First of a new series that aims to record "the masterpieces of all the great playwrights" from Aeschylus to lonesco. Though it is a rather fragile choice, the play's apartment setting and small cast both lend themselves easily to recording. Montgomery Clift is the warehouse "Shakespeare," and Julie Harris plays the gentle keeper of the glass menagerie. Jessica Tandy does creditably as the genteel chatterbox mother, but the role created by Laurette Taylor seems to have shrunk. And David Wayne sounds too grandfatherly as the Gentleman Caller. Nonetheless, their overall...
Baby Want a Kiss is a sort of ventriloquiz, a chance to guess whose playwriting voice is being thrown onstage. Dramatist James Costigan can mimic the voices of Edward Albee, lonesco and the Theater of the Absurd, Pirandello and even James Thurber, but except for a few sallies of wit and whimsy, he cannot speak for himself...