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Pastimes : Ask John Galt...
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To: Rambi who wrote (3794)9/10/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: Tommaso   of 4006
 
Hi Penni!

I had exactly the same responses to Ionesco and Brecht as you did. I go so far back that I can boast of having seen the third performance ever after the opening of the Jean-Louis Barrault production of "Rhinoceros"--after having gone to "La Cantatrice Chauve" and "La Lecon" at the Theatre de la Huchette. At that time their run was only two or three years old, I think.

My initial dislike of Brecht was a result of my New Critical training in college where I was taught that anything didactic was bad, and Brecht was transparently didactic, not to say propagandistic. But "realistic"? Maybe true to human behavior in a way that perhaps Ionesco was not.

But come to think of it, "Rhinoceros" is nothing if not didactic. I guess I could understand Gallic anti-fascist outrage but was not in tune with Marxist comedy. Anyway, I soon learned to appreciate Brecht.
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