on 12/4/03 4:47 PM, Ken Wolman at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I put Ibsen's "Hedda
> Gabler" on the list. One kid wrote a paper in which he described Hedda
> as a sacrificial victim. Hmmmm. And how did we get there? Hedda=Head
> Of. Gabler=Turkey. Head of a Turkey. It was, wrote my student,
> Ibsen's play about Thanksgiving Day.
Well, Ken! By now the Norwegians apparently have to translate uncle Henrik
for their young by now!
> They didn't take nearly so well to Michel de Ghelderode's "Pantagleize,"
> which they thought was boring, racist, and anti-Semitic. I don't know
> if more than 10 people outside Belgium know who Ghelderode WAS, but in
> this crew I'll bet it's at least 11:-).
Ghelderode is among my favourite playwrights. In my dramacourse days we had
to write down a casebook about how we would stage "Pantagleize". I also
played in "Escurial" and I played Death in something I think was called The
Masque of Death. I also staged Three Actore, One Drama. In 1989 I wrote a
modern variation on Escurial, a tragi-farce set in an executive office,
which played in a double bill with the Ghelderode original and was
subsequently televised. So Michel has played a role in my life.
Best
Árni
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