July 28, 2007

• Tabori's Wit:

  The Third Cross

  
  

  The Guardian, July 26,

  on the late playwright
   George Tabori:

  "... he triumphed again with The Goldberg Variations. Mr Jay, assisted by
  Goldberg, a concentration camp survivor, is rehearsing a montage of
  biblical scenes in Jerusalem. It is inspired satire, laced with Jewish
  and Christian polemics, sparkling wit and dazzlingly simple effects.
  For Golgotha a stagehand brings on three crosses. 'Just two,' says Jay.
  'The boy is bringing his own.' Tabori often claimed that the joke was
  the most perfect literary form."

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