ABSTRACT
The avant-garde, as in the sense of disorientation as early as George Sand, tends always to be losing its way, by the very virtue of its being so far up front. It commits itself to being first, even a lonely point in an advancing column, pioneers wanting to be ahead at all risks. The Master’s dramas are being performed everywhere but in sensationalized unorthodox productions where the Regisseur is driven to up-date, modernize, or otherwise transform the sacred texts in order to interest audiences who no longer can take the old message of exploitation and class struggle. “Revolution”—and the famous Brechtian “alienation” from bourgeois society—has gone out of fashion. “A Fund for Contemporaneity,” dedicated to the defense of time and place and atmosphere, might be administered by Trans-Adantic Arts Council and it would use for appropriate cultural charity all monies which the cash penalties hereunder specified cause to flow into its coffers.
