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A rather dreary weekend, a rather dreary beginning to the week. Hopes for a wild weekend, being crushed by a certain friend's incompetance led to me deciding to go home early after a few beers at Nada with Andreas, mattias and an exgirlfriend or two that I'd rather have avoided. I had a nice time, I just hadn't planned to end the whole evening at

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I agree, I find it hard to think of them as irrelevant. they're still a very real way of seeing the world as far as I'm concerned. Still maybe that whole existential nightmare shebang is old hat. I find it hard to see what the current currency for dealing with big questions is however, in what way Beckett and co are lacking.
I guess the big stuff is globalisation, world wide media, the computer age etc etc. But all that stuff seems strangely absurdist to me. I re read Rhinoceros recently. In the wake of the Iraq war and stuff I found it pretty spot on about human nature.
Life is fucking strange, noone ever knows why anything happens, it makes no sense, it's not at all fair and there's no fucking God. No, as I say it, I know I still think all of that stuff is right and any piece of theatre that adresses that stuff directly will tend towards absurdism.
Hard to step away from yourself though and as you know I'm not a big man for contemporary literature. Contemporary theatre admittedly but I think the great theatre I've seen has often functioned within the same continuity as the absurdists. Complicite for example did a great version of The Chairs not so long ago.

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Complicite!
They performed Measure for Measure in Bombay and Bangalore and as we never ever hardly ever have professional and modern theatre in India the newspapers and national news all did features on it. When Pinter won the Nobel, the media here reacted with five line articles which went on to become half page features in the Sunday supplements of all the major dailies, all written by the same professer of lit. at Hyderabad University who once met Pinter at an afternoon party in Cambridge [ or Oxford? ] where he shook Pinter's hand and told him his plays were very popular here [liar!] and then Pinter said that he was surprised but not really surprised because his plays were quite popular in countried where people had been deprived of their freedom [ or were repressed?] like the countries behind the iron curtain for example.
And there was an article about the Cricket team [ club?] which Pinter ran [ sponsored?] and about how cricket was his passion. Again by the Univ. prof, probably his attempt to endear Pinter to the Indian masses.
Literary critics writing in newspapers - remember Nicholas Greene and his 'glawr' ?

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Unfortunately I never saw their Measure for Measure but I heard it was very good.
I know very little about Pinter's cricket interest but I'll trust the proffesor on that. He sounds like a riot.