Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...displays himself as a man in the ironic position of being grafted to the theater while finding most of it lifeless. Based on a series of four lectures that he delivered to English university students, the book is divided into four sections: "The Deadly Theater," "The Holy Theater," "The Rough Theater" and "The Immediate Theater." Conversational in tone, it has an uneven texture that ranges from exact perceptions to fuzzy evangelism. Yet theatergoers who care about the nature and destination of contemporary drama will be drawn to The Empty Space with ravenous interest...
Sedulous Brainwashing. Drama may reach for the stars, but it must be rooted in the soil of "the rough theater." This is the popular drama of crude jests, false noses, stuffed bellies and fear in a faceful of flour. It is vulgar, grotesque and obscene, and it ranges from Punch and Judy to Bertolt Brecht, who argued that the theater should be like a prize ring...
...more than a year, a sort of rough neck regatta has been churning the wa ters of the Gulf of Mexico off Loui siana. It is composed of workboats, tugs, barges and even helicopters, and is crewed by hard-hat engineers, welders and derrick workers. Along the Gulf, a group of companies have strung out 1,000 miles of pipeline in a race for some of the richest U.S. natural-gas deposits...
Solzhenitsyn's relentless narrative, moreover, takes place early in Khrushchev's regime, when the Soviet Union was first beginning to admit, and partially mitigate, the crudest of Stalin's repressions. For metaphorically inclined readers, it is justifiable to observe that Oleg Kostoglotov, the author's rough-hewn hero, has his relief from cancer (as Solzhenitsyn himself did) in 1955, precisely when the U.S.S.R. was having its first remission of the disease of mass exile and imprisonment...
...rough, in a way. Only in a way, because you weren't really aware of it. You and everyone else around you were thoroughly immersed in the process; you were feeding on it; you could never quite pull yourself out and conceptualize what after all was bigger than you. Only when it was too late, when you were 16 or 17 or 18, when your mind was becoming aware of itself, did you begin to realize that men were faster runners, louder speakers, and more credible human beings, and that it was They ("They" being not so much...