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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...
Although Brecht almost ritualistically blames environment-the jungle of the modern city-he comes close to making some general, existential points about man, strikingly anticipating Beckett and lonesco: the impossibility of communication and the paralysis of feeling. At the play's violent end, Garga and Shlink face each other with only a numbing sense of apartness to show for their fiercely intimate enmity: "If you crammed a ship full of human bodies till it burst, the loneliness inside it would be so great that they would turn to ice ... so great is our isolation that even conflict is impossible...
Midseason on Broadway finds an unfavorable balance of dramatic trade, with the two most provocative original plays and the liveliest musical all imported. They are Rhinoceros, a farce-satire by perky Avant-Gardist Eugene lonesco; A Taste of Honey, a sort of earthy British lonely-hearts story; and the wonderfully pert French musical Irma La Douce. The domestic dramas include the tender, poetic family chronicle, All the Way Home; Advise and Consent, a tense political melodrama; and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively but somehow disappointing comedy-lecture on marital success. Among the musicals: although it is currently...
Farce From lonesco. The anger in Albee's The American Dream is less restrained, although the one-hour work begins as a sort of surrealistic situation comedy about a prosperous bourgeois family. The dialogue is a wildly hilarious melange of clichés, inanities and redundancies. Vacuous, tyrannical Mommy harangues intimidated, impotent Daddy, and both berate semi-senile Grandma, whom they threaten to send off to a nursing home. Then in comes a clubwoman who doesn't know who she is or why she is there. Says Mommy: "Won't you sit down, would you like...