Fernando Arrabal

THEHOntST MCME Dy Charles Michener ong before it had its U.S. premiere in New York, Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris had kicked up more dust than any movie since Howard Hughes's The Outlaw rode into town more than a quarter-century ago and set off a storm of controversy and litigation...

INTRODUCTION 'The Theatre of the Absurd' has become a catch-phrase, much used and much abused. What does it stand for? And how can such a label be justified ? Perhaps it will be best to attempt to answer the second question first. There is no organized movement, no school of artists, who claim...