Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis...
...They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis...
...action is set on a desert containing a tree, a rubber raft, some seashells, two men and a woman. The men and the woman have a number of problems, the main one being that the sea has disappeared. They know that there must be a sea--the presence of the shells can be explained in no other way--and they have built their lives around the expectation of the sea's return...
...humor which Eugene Ionesco used brilliantly in The Bald Soprano. Sometimes the dialogue falls flat: "I was trying to catch a fly." "Why?" "Why? Would you have me catch a cold instead?" But more often it is mildly amusing, as when one of the men logically demonstrates that the tree is not a tree. The funniest moment in the play, though, is not verbal at all; it comes when the other man is unable...
Said der Alte: "When a student enters the university, he or she is neither a finished man nor a finished woman. One is never completely finished in life. A boy needs a special atmosphere. It is like a plant that grows up, or a young tree. It depends on how the air is, on the surroundings he is in, on the earth that gives him nourishment. I believe a Studentenkorporation [fraternity] can give a young student a great deal. I look back at my student time and can only say that the atmosphere which I found in the fraternities...