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...article titled "The Bald Primaqueera,"* which blasted the theaters of cruelty and the absurd, Sean O'Casey offered his view of the source of this sense of degradation: "It was Artaud-the latest trumpeter of the Primaqueeri-or one of his brethren, who gave us a picture of a beautiful girl, naked, with a malignant tarantula spider between her lovely thighs." In Harold Pinter's work, the temptress/tarantula becomes the slut/ mother. The theme is developed with the greatest finesse in The Homecoming. Ruth and her husband Teddy come home to England to visit Teddy's widowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Faces of Eve | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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