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...sharp, funny one-act play, written by Slawomir Mrozek and translated from Polish, Charlie deals with three characters and one problem. The characters are an oculist of rather flexible moral convictions (Paul Benedict), an old man with a loaded gun and bad vision (Edward Finnegan), and his solicitous, direct grandson (Richard Shepard). These last two are country people, and they see the problem as a simple one: Grandpa wishes to kill something named "Charlie"; he needs some glasses to recognize him. The doctor has difficulty understanding, though...
...ELEPHANT, by Slawomir Mrozek. A lion refuses to eat Christians, a Polish matron keeps a live revolutionary caged in her living room, civil servants begin to fly like eagles over Warsaw in the fantasy world of a brilliant young Polish satirist...
...ELEPHANT, by Slawomir Mrozek. A lion refuses to eat Christians, a Polish matron keeps a live revolutionary caged in her living room, civil servants begin to fly like eagles over Warsaw in the fantasy world of a brilliant young Polish satirist who pokes fun most often at the howling gap between reality and Communist Party renderings...
...ELEPHANT by Slawomir Mrozek. 176 pages. Grove...
...Slawomir Mrozek, author of these and scores of other weird vignettes, is a brilliant young Polish satirist. His brief mixtures of fey anecdote and topsyturvy fable have as their most persistent source of humor the howling gap that exists between the world as it is depicted by Communist rhetoricians and the world as it really...