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Show Presents methods, techniques By Richard Weil This last weekend included a performance of two plays in the Babcock Theatre. These dramas, billed under THEATRE OF THE ABSURD, however, were really more concerned with presenting new methods and techniques of more recent playwrites whose additions seem to be burgeoning in modern drama. Of course, I know for those who were there that the phallic banana scene is a favorite of absurd drama. But the rest of the nlav was about, as the title Suggests, MR. KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, the last important event of an old and progressively sickening man who finally dies as the tape recorder replays that event. Bet you can't guess the event? Right, a love affair, with a woman, thirty years before. The second play was by Ionesco, VICTIMS OF DUTY, which was essentially an off-broadway cool drama rather than absurd, and an excellent play I found all sorts of parallels to Dante's DIVINE COMEDY and Milton's PARADISE LOST, but who knows I might have read something else last quarter which I would have seen as a reference. Dumb and Perverted Anyway I pictured a search for Paradiso aided by a perverted and dumb blonde Beatrice formed into a heavy dialogue about void, existentialism, and the idiosyncracies of humans tied to the journey through hell. But what if I had read Notes From the Underground the day before? As anyone with literary ability, biological adeptness, or a smirk can see that I am not trying to do a Saturday Review criticism or even more a paper for an "upper division class." Thanks to the cast and the production crew is what I am in search of. It was a total relief from thP productions frorn 7n Memorial. r'oneet Privileged Experience It was a privilege to exDi the new possibilities T ' rather than a poorly SL Ba badly choreographed musical! even more exciting, it Was ft A charge and attracted' sympathetic audience ll undoubtedly helped the caT, least Friday night it did) What a delight and an irony w to be charged for wit"' something more inventive t Utah usually gets, fascinating m subject matter a unbelievable but with a h quality of production (particular! Victims of Duty). PerS I am only a pork chop runner f0r capitalism, but I felt good havin, something given to me that mart one of the Huddle's new 20 cen horsemeat delights. I wish thanks was enough to get more n this kind of drama. Well anyway I'll go again if presented with the opportunity. i |
