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I (SO Tiflar 430 enneviHa Spanish prison, he promised his fellow Inmates that he would write about the injustice of their lives. In his preface to the play, he ays: "More than anything else, I would like And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers to be thought of as a shout." His shout, poetic or profane, has been heard around the world. "Even in Albania and Iceland. In every country except Spain," he said. When I asked the quiet, soft-spoken "priest" of violence, if he thought his plays might ever be done in Spain, he smiled and answered: I think later.

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Van. 17-1441, You, Too, Can Look POUNDS THINNER WITH THESE GREAT SUMMER SPECIALS ELE CTROHOMB jri ji PTtF.K Tram. Itartto with iMih lit hMK By WILLIAM A. RAIDT NEW YORK Fernando Arrabal, the Spanish playwright and a leader of what used to be known as the avant-garde, recently complained "the only people who know me are college professors." The 39-year-old author hag written more than 60 plays but less than a handful hav been seen in America. Since the opening of And -They Put Handcuffs On The Flowers at Greenwich Village's Mercer-O'Casey Thea- tre, which has been turned Into a dungeon for the occasion, the name Arrabal has becom the center of a storm.

And They Put Handcuffs On The Flowers is no ordinary play, even in an avant-garde sense. It is overbrimming with blood and violence and what some might term obscenity. During this ritual of violence (the title comes from a remark the Spanish Anti-fascist poet-playwright, Garcia Lore made shortly before his murder) a man eats his own testicles, another urinates in plain view on the stage and Christ is involved in a lewd act. Critics and others have come out of this experience greatly moved or repelled. One man wrote a critic; "Not only should such actions be forbidden onstage, you should not lower yourself to report on such muck.

For shame." New York has not been the only city to be Arrabal-Ized. Last summer many visitors to the Stratford, Ont. Shakespeare Festival were horrified to watch a man defecate (or at least simulate this function) onstage during the Spanish playwright's The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria. In Belgium, authorities banned Handcuffs from the stage. The author, here in New York to direct his play which was written after he spent almost a month in a Spanish prison "blasphemy and calumny," had the personal solemnitya and gentleness of a country priest We talked of violence and life.

Arrabal, speaking in a mixture of perfect French and faltering English, denied his play about the torturous life in a Spanish prison was fantasy. "All my plays," he said half solemnly and half mockingly, "are about the reality. The reality is like the Iceberg. One part of the Iceberg Is seen. The most important part of the iceberg is inside the sea.

The surrealist said: 'Father, talk about your dreams to your children. Tell your dreams to your children! In our theatre, we tell about the secret desire the things you don't tell about. Our theatre is not violent or pornographic. It is human and humanity is all these things, isn't it?" Samuel (Waiting For Godot) Beckett is a realist, the Spanish writer added. "I admire very much Beck-' ett," he added.

"He is my friend. But we never talk about art or the theatre. Once In a while about technique, yes. But we talk mainly about chess. About Bobby Fischer.

When I was in jail in Spain, Beckett came to my aid. Aud so did Arthur Miller, Ionesco and Ingrid Bergman. Beckett wanted to come to my trial. They all offered to be witnesses In the court. "Arthur Miller wrote to the president of the court.

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