Word: lonesco
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Scott (Oct. 5). Judy Holliday is an odd but interesting choice as the star of Laurette, adapted from Marguerite Courtney's excellent, unrestrained biography of her mother, the late Actress Laurette Taylor (Oct. 27). Eli Wallach will take over the role Laurence Olivier created in London in Eugene lonesco's symbolic Rhinoceros, a play in which everyone but the hero, the last individual, turns into a horny beast (Dec. 3). Sir Laurence himself arrives in Jean Anouilh's Becket. With one eye on history and another on the forces that motivate it, the French playwright follows England...
...most "committed" line of lonesco's career, Olivier shouts past the descending curtain: "I'm not giving up!" Chateau en Suede, Frangoise Sagan's first play, following her increasingly dull novels, is the biggest Paris hit in many seasons. Sagan's Castle in Sweden is 18th century, down to the costumes of the inhabitants, who seem like characters from a summery Watteau canvas driven inside by the chill of autumn-but the time is 1960. Dressing up is this family's mildest eccentricity. Beautiful Eleonore is devoted to her husband Hugo, but this has never...
...fell, as Lawrence realized at last the truth of his own perversion. Not everyone agreed with Playwright Rattigan's picture of Lawrence, but, wrote Critic T. C. W^orsely: "As one view of the enigma, this will impose itself for a long time." Rhinoceros, Avant-Gardist Eugene lonesco's new play, opened with Sir Laurence Olivier triumphing over the din-and-delirium direction of Orson Welles, lonesco's famed earlier one-acters dealt opaquely with such subjects as a girl with three noses and a man and wife who share their apartment with a growing corpse. This...
Rhinoceritis, implies lonesco, is the most communicable disease of the 20th century: under the pressures of mass-think, man loses his individuality and is driven to joining the bestial herd. Many characters protest the change, but relentlessly their skins thicken and wrinkle, their voices become grunts, and great ski-jump tusks appear on their faces. "We must resist rhinocerization at any cost," cry the seemingly unafflicted, but already they start, rhino-like, to munch odd bits of paper, ivy leaves, potted plants...