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To: Rambi who wrote (3794)	4/7/1998 3:46:00 PM
From: Ignacio Mosqueira	Respond to of 4006

Darlin' penni! My play is a dance of the distance most of all. Whether it would suit your taste or not you do well to engage me in it. I like it that way. Naturally I am keenly aware of the limits of human communication (as they touch you as well) yet the term alienist relates to the theatrical tack just as you say. I am not really sure what was meant by the comment. It could be a variety of things. Do you wish to decide for yourself darlin penni?

To: Rambi who wrote (3794)	4/8/1998 2:51:00 AM
From: Ignacio Mosqueira	Respond to of 4006

penni, did they make you read "Brecht on theater" in grad school? I read before discussing a staging of Brecht's Baal with a local theater director. I am not a fan of Brecht or his method but one can not deny that he had one!

To: Rambi who wrote (3794)	9/10/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to 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.