Word: rhinocerosity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tupou, who waited two years for his crown because of the nation's deep grief over Salote's death, is an Australian-educated lawyer who was Tonga's Prime Minister until his mother died. In his university days, he excelled at such untraditional sports as surfing and...
And what makes the perfect setting to view an instant film biography? Right now in Chicago, it is the animal furniture-sculpture of French Designer Francois-Xavier Lalanne. Delighting the throngs at the Art Institute are his furnishings, including a flock of 22 woolly-coated, roller-footed sheep that serve...
What the Adams House production of Rhinoceros will be like when the actors have memorized more of the lines I do not know. What the play is now is funny, very funny, in the outrageously sloppy manner of ginned-up genius.
The assumption behind director Alan King's effort is that Ionesco is a fuddy-duddy playwright. True, his Rhinoceros sketches the transformation of all humans, save one, into grumpy beasts, but then readers of daily newspapers have long predicted such things. Besides, Ionesco calls for realistic sets and the stale...
There is too much burlesquing by the women in the play, but as they do it well it isn't fair to carp. Denise Girouard as Mrs. Boef, wife of a rhinoceros, is the most skillful of the lot. She is a master of the tableau vivant, always finding the...