Word: lonesco
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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 It suffered a lethal production in London last summer, and was withdrawn after a fortnight.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...
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...