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‘Ionescopade’ at FAU achieves delight in absurdity

February 4, 2016 By Palm Beach Arts Paper

The cast and crew of “Ionescopade: A Musical Vaudeville” is shown with musical composer-librettist Mildred Kayden and director Bill Castellino, center front, and Theatre Lab director Lou Tyrrell, rear, second from right, at Florida Atlantic University. (Photo by Dale King)

By Dale King Prolific absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco didn’t like Ionescopade, A Musical Vaudeville, when first he saw it. Mildred Kayden, who wrote the music and lyrics for what she herself deemed “a very strange play,” said the Romanian-born, French-raised author swore he would never speak English again because the absurd musical raised his own absurdity to an even … [Read more...]

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