Word: lonesco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Independent Whim. Ulm's particular specialty has been the theater of the absurd, and absurdity-:the existentialist-born notion that only the moment matters and the moment is meaningless -reaches great heights in Ulm, so great in fact that writers like Beckett, Jean Genet (The Blacks) and Eugene lonesco (The Bald Soprano) are actually regarded as "old fuddy-duddies" by some residents. Beckett's new Play, in their view, has a plot and is therefore blighted...
...Lamp Unto My Feet. The program's host hailed Ghelderode as a sort of dark messiah of the implied positive, whose generally malevolent characters actually yearn steadily for God. Other critics have said that in this century of despair, no more despairing voice-they variously compare it to lonesco's and even Brecht's-has rolled through the black caverns of the absurd...
...conversation-"a whale of a time," "the Prince of Wales." Martyrdom's Delusion. In this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects the evils of conformity with a fanciful touch that scarcely disguises the depth of his intent; his message is reminiscent of lonesco's Rhinoceros-the battle for individuality is worth fighting against any odds. When Big Mac was published in Yugoslavia, orthodox critics and even Kos's admirers agreed that he had perhaps gone too far. Only the madness that eventually spills Hero Rade into the warm bath of martyrdom...
Boothbay Harbor, Me., Playhouse: Early lonesco: The Bald Soprano and The Lesson...
...have clear sailing all the way, however. It suffered a lethal production in London last summer, and was withdrawn after a fortnight. The "anonymous" Anthony Cookman of the London Times wrote of "what appears to be intended as a hilarious skit on the lonesco School of Playwrights," but found the direction and acting ruinously "heavy-handed...