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Nightmare Memories in Viennese Theater |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: John Elsom |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,840 Words, 16,736 Characters |
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This article examines how the social and moral question of
contemporary Austria's relationship with its Nazi past is
being treated in the Viennese theater. The dialectic of
drama and society exemplified in this article links it with
those in Currents in Modern Thought (p.462), collected
under the title "Theater: From the Mask to the Moderns."
These discuss the relation of dramatic art to its culture,
from the Greeks to Samuel Beckett, and from the East as
well as the West.
Vienna often reminds me of the aging Broadway star Carlotta in Stephen Sondheim's Follies, who sings, "Good times and bum times, I've seen them all, and, my dear, I'm still here."
Like Carlotta, Vienna has acquired over the years a magnificent wardrobe and a doubtful reputation...
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...oth on the stage and off. It is as if Vienna were preparing itself for the challenges that lie ahead, when glasnost will gradually ease the tensions in Europe, and Austria will join the European Community. Viennese theater seems less Viennese, but more mature. I may be greatly mistaken, but it is as if the Burgtheater has decided to celebrate its hundredth birthday by growing up at last.
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