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Show At Babcock 'Little Slice of Horror' By TOM HERMAN Amid sets of stone, steel and earth that with a hard stare, two men acted (?) out a littl to How close is our civilized world to the animal iV!!,Ceof to Edward Albee, not too far. WOrW Ac0r" In- "Zoo Story" as in "Who's Afraid of Vi " Albee presents his thesis that love and hate are v tions. A bum (who some how uses correctly mk '0 pathy and discusses the physical diefects of FreudW middle class publisher of his love for a dog that k to poison and his boarding house that is too much n with cages for a variety of "animals." The two ! little in common it may seem, and yet they fin?1' level in a fight and death scene that begins with su fittest and ends with an animal cry from the bu ';' death the only escape from the realization that man? a beast, a Godless creature caged by conformity !?1 conventions and inventions. y na But where does Albee leave us? Is there a sohif i i leaves man caught and caged by something we can t Are we the hunters and the zoo keepers? Am I Z keeper? y 6r;v The Bald Soprano The scene: a conventional living room in a co f London home. The characters: a middle age couole H i No. Not really. H 'm' The hands of the grandfather clock say 9:30; the clock -v 16 times and the wife announces that is is 9:00. She the dinner with her husband who answers with clucfet dinner guests. Oh, the dinner guests a married counle-do counle-do not recognize each other, although they have been sir- together, until they realize that they have the same day-' who must drive all the boys wild she has one red Krone Kr-one white eye. The reasoning is far beyond explanation? a circle and caress it and it becomes vicious or another r-little r-little maxim. How about that? Yes siree, that's about it with the Soprano." After all, "the Bald Soprano always wears k 1 f the same way." Ionesco displays a fine talent for preserrtinp a most boring conversations on record, and yet it is entertfc 1 not only to the characters, but also to the audience. 1 |