Word: lonesco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday, October 27: Theater--Two one act plays, "The Lesson," by lonesco. "Lord Byron's Love Letter," by Williams. Directed by Nina Condon. Jewettc Auditorium, 8 pm. Free with Wellesley ID, others...
Glistrup concedes that his political road show is theater of the absurd, noting, "It beats lonesco completely." Still, he touched a raw nerve in the Danes' severely aching economy. Already hurting from 10% inflation, Danes are afflicted with one of the world's highest individual income tax rates. On a graduated scale the tax bite ranges from a minimum of 44% on incomes up to $11,600 to a maximum of 63% on earnings over $21,000. To make matters worse, the government imposed a $1 billion sales tax increase last fall to help balance a $2.6 billion...
...which he appealed "both to their consciences and their half-empty houses on Mondays and Tuesdays." Once a month, one of A.F.T.'s eight first-season productions will be shown in each participating theater, for four performances only. The films will rotate, so that Findlay, Ohio, might see lonesco's Rhinoceros on the same two days that Tyler, Texas, sees John Osborne's Luther. At subscription rates of $30 for evening performances (about $3.75 a film) and $24 for matinees, A.F.T. can break even, Landau estimates, by filling only 44% of the 1,500,000 theater seats...
...RIDE ACROSS LAKE CONSTANCE by PETER HANDKE It is difficult to say what this play means, but relatively easy to tell you how to write it. Rip out pages from lonesco, Pinter, Beckett, Kafka, the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein and Alice in Wonderland. Tear these into tiny fragments and scatter them on the stage. Austrian Playwright Peter Handke, 29, is a derivative word-vandal. He is currently quite the vogue in Europe, which suggests that the decline of the West is progressing more rapidly than Spengler envisioned...
Soon after writing this declaration lonesco began what became his great life work. Present Past Past Present is the unattractive side of Ionesco's genius. His hate for the totalitarians of left and right, his loathing of fad and cliche, his nearly total despair, are monotonously gone into. Even his sentences are depressed. There is no humor and little hope. Perhaps the content of his plays is nearly as disillusioned. But in them his inability to make sense out of the world becomes scenes of brilliant nonsense. He turns the types of people he hates into grotesques and their cliches...