Word: lonesco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 in two weeks...
...prefers it to filet mignon, or something equally trite, the little man peels off his face. "I'm not a man," he says. "I'm a cat dressed up for a masquerade ball." The viewer is left to brood that although this tiny bit of cartooned lonesco may not be the funniest thing ever written, it is, pound for pound, a great deal better than Gunsmoke...
Rhinoceros. Conformity gets a rhinoceros-hiding in lonesco's funny but farfetched allegory...
Rhinoceros. lonesco's lone nonconformist (Eli Wallach) stalwartly resists joining the herd, even when his best friends (notably Zero Mostel) desert...
Rhinoceros. Eugene lonesco provides better farce than satire in an exhilarating demonstration of how the pressures of conformity can make animals even out of the best...