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| | Holly Raynard, University of California, Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | While Executioner and Fool was not Voskovec and Werich's first political play (their political comedy dates to 1931), it was the first to generate such controversy. |
 | | After right-wing forces organized protests during a performance of Executioner and Fool on October 30, 1934, Voskovec and Werich (or V+W) were featured almost daily in the press — not only in theater reviews, but in connection with such non-theatrical topics as university finance, politics, and the homeless. |
 | | I argue that their satire was hardly retrograde, but captured a compelling interplay of art and life befitting V+W's avant-garde roots. |
| aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2004/abstracts/raynard.htm (500 words) |
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