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I must open a parenthesis here and mention that according to OED, the term "buffoon" means a ridiculous but amusing person, and it comes from the French bouffon, which derives from the Latin buffo, meaning "clown. Lombard-Jourdan explains that the Latin term for toad, buffo, "eveille aussitot pour nous le souvenir de ces bufurdi, 'behourdis,' 'bourdis,' (espagnol et portugais boffordo), feux qu'on allumait traditionnellement en mars, lors de la fete equinoxiale. The second half of Kulick's production showcased part of the Pontius Pilate section from Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece The Master and Margarita, besides a dramatized scene from the novel Time of Miracles by Serbian dissident Borislav Pekic, and two scenes from the play Mistero Buffo by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo, whose works have scandalized the Vatican. |
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