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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

902.0. "Off-Off-Off Broadway (Fake) Plays" by PSYLO::WILSON () Thu Jul 25 1991 22:52

    I can just imagine these as the names of Off-Off-Off Broadway, 
    black comedy Existential plays: 
    
    
    The Return of Vladimir
    
    I, Criminal
    
    Birthday for Boris
    
    The Immured
    
    Party in the Penal Colony
    
    
    I find these names pretentiously funny, with Marxist/Modernist
    overtones. 
    
    Others?   
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902.1Pretentious enough?? %^}VMSMKT::KENAHThe man with a child in his eyes...Fri Jul 26 1991 17:473
    
    
    			Ennui and Despair
902.2HEART::MACHINFri Jul 26 1991 19:135

	I, Pierre Riviere, Having Burgled the Gas Meter...

	Richard.
902.3CIVAGE::BUCHANANTue Jul 30 1991 23:145
    re .1, I prefer:
    
    			Ennui VI part III
    
    Andrew
902.4Oh, sorry, that's a fake book title.STAR::CANTORIM2BZ2PWed Jul 31 1991 04:533
I have no console terminal and I must type.

Dave C.
902.5BITBKT::FORBESBill Forbes - RTI BUFri Dec 13 1991 07:577
        Re: <<< Note 902.4 by STAR::CANTOR "IM2BZ2P" >>>

I suspect that the author of -.1 had in mind a particular science-fiction
short story, the title of which he paraphrased.  It seems to me that the
original qualifies on its own:

     I Have No Mouth, Yet I Must Scream.
902.6I prefer performance art...ESGWST::RDAVISJust aphasia going throughFri Dec 13 1991 09:2417
    Swiss Shards -- The tormented childhood of Jung, with background
    industrial music
    
    Far Out Vile Jelly -- Postmodern cabaret beach party parody of "King
    Lear"
    
    Pierce Me Deadly -- Musical noir set in a body-modification shop
    
    If I Was Karen Carpenter and You Were Jan Brady Would You Still Love Me
    Would You Be Having My Baby? -- '70s nostalgia
    
    Mars Needs Joan Crawford! -- Costume extravaganza
    
    
    (If "Aliens: The Musical, Starring Josie and the Pussycats in Outer
    Space" hadn't (really) been produced in San Francisco a few weeks ago,
    I would've included it, too...)
902.7I confessSTAR::CANTORHave pun, will babble.Fri Dec 20 1991 19:436
re .5

You're right.  It was a reference to "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"
by Harlan Ellison.                                    ===

Dave C.