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In the world of Samuel Beckett, the entire machinery of existence seems to be grinding to a halt. Words leave his characters' mouths between pauses and in slow motion, as if speech were becoming extinct. The scenery is either fossilized, the bare gnarled tree of Waiting For Godot, or...
If existence comes to a halt in Beckett, it is absurdly speeded up in the work of Eugene Ionesco. When the clock strikes 17 in the first scene of his first play, The Bald Soprano, it sounds the meaning of all his plays: "The universe is out of control." Better...
Yet when radio came along, he abandoned his props, relied for laughs on his natural lisp and his unnatural giggle. By the early '30s, he was a big-timer as the Texaco Fire Chief-one of the first com ics to kid the sponsor. "I'll stick to...
Unlike most Ex directors who put props on the floor for a set and use the moveable black flats only to separate the playing area from whatever wing space is necessary, Babe and designer William Schroeder have built a small raised stage in the theatre, a rectangular room open to...
When a 19th century artist set out to depict the Stations of the Cross, he could fall back on a ready-made iconography. The fifth painting, he knew, must represent Simon helping Christ shoulder the cross. Not so for an abstract painter, who must face the problem of portraying the...