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What kind of humor is there in watching an abusive teacher assault and kill little red riding hood?
It’s the “not me” type of humor which makes us take our distances not only from the plays of the “theater of the absurb,” but also from the characters.
. All this is intentional: the nonidentification by the audience is an educational goal. To reach this goal, Ionesco exaggerates, accelerates, proliferates, explodes just to start all over again.
He uses elements of myths, history, dreams, psychoanalysis, comedy and drama. Kvervthing is allowed to create this “not me" effect which usually — beginning a few hours after watching the plavs — starts off as something else, sort of a rational as well as an emotional search for fundamental truth in what was see on stage, the search for parallels in history or its meaning in one’s own behav ior, of course, without the
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