“Another happy day.”
― Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
Random Find #18: Don’t Pause. Don’t Stop. Press Play. Hard.
Marquise de Merteuil: “Well, I had no choice, did I? I’m a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent, not only myself, but ways of escape no one has every thought of before. And I’ve succeeded because I’ve always known I was born to dominate your sex and avenge my own.”
Joe Orton’s classic pitch-black comedy - Entertaining Mr Sloane. The play has it all: murder, homosexuality, nymphomania, sadism and an extra helping of sibling-sexual-rivalry. Why not! Pure genius.
Edward Albee’s first play: The Zoo Story.
The play starts with two men meeting on a park bench.
By the end, one man is dead.
Brutal. Brilliant.
