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The Word is Absurd

For among her many suitors she cannot decide,

Which one she'd prefer ultimately to abide.

Disturbed by her manipulative ways,

Alceste thus ends up in a misanthropic malaise.

Not satisfied with Moliere's original, director Mark Prascak chooses to play with his play,

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Thinking his inventions quite funny, though at times, I'd say, "Nay."

He wildly asserts a parallel with Ionesco and the Theater of the Absurd,

Therefore rendering the original play completely blurred.

Yet I do somewhat fancy some of the things that he does,

But if you ask me why, I can only answer, "Because."

Prascak has the audience encircle the stage,

As the actors roam about fully engaged. He calls this innovation "theater in the maze" as the actors move from spot to spot,

Yet the Globe Theater, Adams House Dining Hall is most definitely not.

Sans light and sans props this is minimalism at its best,

But for the actors who grope in the dark it proves a difficult coordination test. Though they do carry flashlights to spotlight their faces,

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