Word: durrenmatt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marriage, life is general. That cheery thought illuminates the combat between Edgar, his failed actress of a wife Alice and a cousin Kurt who "coupled them up" 25 years ago, and now returns to contribute some of his banker's wealth and unction to the silver wedding anniversary Friedrich Durrenmatt's 1968 re-writing--or choreographing" as he terms it--of Strindberg's Dance of Death converts that play from a tragedy about marriage to a comedy about marriage tragedies and translates it into the terms of Brechtian "epic" theater...
...times lines get caught in the cross-fire or slip into obviousness, the production is on the whole masterfully staged and acted. Play Strindberg is no great achievement; Durrenmatt's original works stand far above it and deserve more stagings of their own. But it is a solid piece of comedy and at the New Theater brings first rate professional drama to Harvard Square...
...AINT ANY CRAZIER than the average asshole on the street," decides Randle P. McMurphy, the hero of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest after only a short time inside a state mental hospital. From Shakespeare to Marnt-Sade to Durrenmatt, writers have attempted to probe the implications of insanity and to articulate the paradoxes that best madness. McMurphy soon learns that, as one of the doctors puts it, "the asylum is 'society in miniature.'" From his first boisterous appearance, crashing in as a recent "committal" from the state prison farm, to when he lies stretched...