Then the old illusions will no longer be troublesome. However, broadly speaking, the playwrights of the movement seek to stimulate their fellow man to face up to harsh reality and make the necessary readjustments. His condition then is out of harmony with life, illogical, senseless, useless- hence absurd. Is lost and apparently devoid of purpose. Bereft of illusions and certitudes, cut loose from faith and old values, man Instead, it denotes what its practitioners regard as the contemporary human condition. In the Theatre of the Absurd the word absurd is not to be construed to mean ridiculous. Need for further rehearing and re-examination. March 1, Albee's "The American Dream" and "The Zoo Story," and March 4, Ionesco's "The Killer." After that, it apparently will remain to be seen how strong curiosity is, how strong the devotee's 25 by Jean Genet's "Deathwatch" and Arrabal's "Picnic on the Battlefield" Next Sunday night Jack Richardson's "Gallows Humor" and Edward Albee's "Sandbox" will take the stage, to be followed on Feb. Also offered on the bill is Kenneth Koch's brief playlet, "Bertha."
GENRE THE SANDBOX BY EDWARD ALBEE SERIES
Fittingly, the honor of leading off the series has gone to the movement's high priest, Samuel Beckett, whose "Endgame" was
Wilder last night opened the Cherry Lane Theatre to a limited season depicting plays of the genre. N the assumption, evidently, that the time is ripe for a concentrated study of what has come to be called the Theatre of the Absurd, producers Richard Barr and Clinton
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