... and the ant escaped! Then the partridge saw how foolish she had been. So it is with man, for he will regret his laughter with bitter tears. Yet I will have nothing to regret, for I have no cause to laugh. Copyright © THEATER 1989 1989 THE INSANITY OF PASSION...

...Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 JOEL SCHECHTER “Laughter is no laughing matter. . . . Only equals may laugh. If inferiors...

...Bim; Bom; Elise Thoron, translated by Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 brought his whip down upon the record with force. . . . The damaged record squeaked and became silent. And the silence THE LAUGH spread down the ranks extinguishing the laughter. . . His violence ultimately allows...

... the motives of the gods. This seems to me to be crucial. Take for example Peter Brook's Ludicrous Rex (laughter) at the National Theatre, in which he tried to impose on an audience a completely recon• structed ritual. He expected a ritual response, and all that was produced was a gigantic embarrassment...

... communication is increasingly difficult to find or trust. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer warned us about the dangers of laughter as a biopolitical resource, especially when the culture industry cans it up for mass consumption: Fun is a medicinal bath. The pleasure industry never fails to prescribe...

... Supper (1970); Lulu (197 1); The Bmitch- ed (1974); 77ze Frontiers of Farce (1977); Laughter (1978); Antonio (1979); Red Noses, BlaGk Death (1980). Barnes is a comic playwright in the most contemporary and dramatic sense. Comedy out of adversity as Durrenmatt indicates in his essay...

... revisions right Comfortable laughter now. Is that right, galley / revisions? joyce So Bob just wanted to sit in if that’s joyce Yeah that’s / right. okay, he wanted to meet you. bob Hey is Pam still there? At Simon’s? bob I’m invisible...

... think it helped, you know, but we felt it was Sarcastic “No,”followed by general laughter. our duty to do this. BEGOVIC I have a story about how people on BEGOVIC You mustn’t forget that now we are the front line look at people doing art sitting...

... with apartheid had done to black people. Perhaps Jozi Jozi? the shock of white people was the shock of dis- empowerment, while the laughter of black peo- LEDWABA There was this prospect...

... for better conditions in a prison. (Laughter) If there are prisons, there must be running water in every cell. And if it isn't in any jail, I'll picket to achieve it. But it's ridiculous to picket for better conditions in jail, and this made you laugh for obvious reasons. But, in a way, that's...

..., just because the situation is fascinating retired comic may make us cry, it is not through to the comic, doesn’t make it so for his audience. laughter that we reach those tears. He is surpris- Perhaps the teacher is no longer comic himself ingly and disconcertingly unfunny. “In three...

... cheats” by allow- given. Discussing “gay plays,” Wilson reflected ing “persons to fall out of character and situa- on a regression since the 80s: “Well, we had tions out of any sense, to get his laughter.” Bent and Fifth of July and Torch Song Trilogy, Richards, Stuart, and .Kirkpatrick thought...

...Michael Bertin - -- Book~ Review Ortonesque Michael Berth hick Up Your Ears: The Biography OfJoe Orton by John Lahr Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978 Playing tricks with death record. It is also best to record it now; employed laughter...

... to the limits of laughter because of the murderous act of the authoritative figure of Agrippa. The changes to Hoffmann’s text reveal a contemporary social critique not simply of the original book but of our vicious treatment of those we consider misfits or rowdy. Here is Hoffmann’s text, “The Story...

... RON JENKINS ‘Next to the universality of medieval laughter we must stress another striking peculiarity: its indissoluble and essential relation to freedom.“ - Mikhail Bakhtin istory’s most subversive comedians have Looking...

.... The is laughter, laughter at the pretention which moment in which the master receives allows us to think that everything is always as Leporello’s acquiescence in noisy orgasms, it should be, laughter which reassures us that ElvirdOlympia falls off her couch. Dis- things are not under such tight...

.... The gaze hurts. And the audience, on the dvd I watched, laughed. To understand The Case of the Spectator in this moment, I return to the genealogy of spectating that the audience brought with it in that laughter. This is, again, a geneal- ogy of movies — one of the major spectonic plates in Jerez’s...

...); and the poems, Cloud in. Pants (1915), War and Peace loathing as well as laughter in exposes of the petty nobility and (1916) and Man (1916-1917). He qualified his post- Revolutionary provincial officials. views on the establishment of a new order in the well-known plays, Mystery Bouffe (1919), The Bedbug...

... was nothing else but a civil war, West [Laughter.] And the other way around — for against East, and that we were defending an example, in Berlin you have migrant workers East German identity against this. In those who have been on unemployment for thirty-­ early years the theater was very much dedi...

... of Molière s The Versailles Impromptu (L impromptu de Versailles). Other tributes from actors are more unanimous, like that of Denis Podalydès, who hails in this comic demon (démon comique) the insane gaiety (gaité insensée) and the laughter of self-e­ vidence, of life (rire d évidence, de vie), while...