Word: lonesco
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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 this Saturday...
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...
...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...
...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...