Word: lonesco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edward Albee's The American Dream, for instance, is a masterly parody of cliche phrases designed to point up the absence of any of the real feelings the words originally conveyed. Eugene (Rhinoceros) lonesco uses chairs and furniture that proliferate with Marx Bros, zaniness in The Chairs and The New Tenant to dramatize major 20th century concerns -the tyranny of matter over spirit, the degradation of values, the confusion of ends and means...
...Beckett branch of the avantgarde, which includes such playwrights as Eugene lonesco (Rhinoceros) and Edward Albee (The Zoo Story), might be labeled the New Exquisites. The Old Exquisites (e.g., Oscar Wilde and the fin-de-siècle dandies) were anti-bourgeois snobs. They were too pure for the philistine middle class. The New Exquisites are anti-life snobs. Life is not pure enough for them. Several times in Happy Days, Winnie scrutinizes the handle of her toothbrush and reads the words "fully guaranteed . . . genuine pure." She and the New Exquisites are bitter because life is not fully guaranteed...
East Hampton, N.Y., John Drew Theater: The famed Eugene lonesco duo, The Chairs and The Bald Soprano...
COMEDY. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is not only funny but wise; lonesco's Rhinoceros is not only funny but provocative. Come Blow Your Horn is a long, often amusing, Jewish family joke. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, two people who may just possibly abolish boredom, can and should still be caught before the show closes this Saturday...
...hatred, is probably the most interesting item around. Genet's other long-running offering is The Balcony, an amusing charade in which the world is seen as a vast brothel. Rising Dramatist Edward Albee, who has not yet written a full-length play, has built a reputation on lonesco-like one-acters, of which The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith are now on view. Also recommended: Hedda Gabler, with Anne Meacham doing Ibsen to the hilt-and Under Milk Wood, a fine performance of Dylan Thomas' ribald and rueful elegy to a little Welsh town...