(above, Tom Eckwurtzel, Lawrence Smith, and Regina Mocey in TANGO, Protean Repertory Theatre, late 70's)
“Tango”, Slawomir Mrozek’s best-known play, was first produced in Warsaw in 1964. A three-act dark comedy that is often likened to “Hamlet,” it concerns the ideological conflict between a bohemian couple, who lead lives of cheerful unregulated licentiousness, and their young adult son, who comes home from college determined to impose a rigidly traditional order on the household. Disaster ensues.
“Let us say it is a bit of a paradox,” Mr. Mrozek, asked to explain the play, told The Times in 1969, “about the will to revolt in a permissive society which ends in dictatorship. It is a mixture of the grotesque and the serious and the sad.”
“Tango” was staged in London in 1966, in a Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Trevor Nunn. It was produced Off Broadway at the Pocket Theater, on Third Avenue at 13th Street, in 1969.
I appeared as the mother of the young adult son in the Protean Repertory Theatre production in the late 70's in Hartford, Connecticut.
(Tom Ekwurtzel, Regina Mocey)
(Tom Ekwurtzel, Lawrence Smith, Philip Shapiro)
(Lawrence Smith, Richard Cody)
(Lawrence Smith, Tom Ekwurtzel)
