Word: beckett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Albee said that while Chekov, Beckett and Pirandello influenced him, his artistic vision remains his own. "The whole matter of influence is learning from other writers how to be yourself," he said...
Endworks. A performance piece featuring Chris O'Neil drawn from the works of Samuel Beckett. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $12 for students...
...daughters or both: MaDear (Raffini), the not-so-senile great-grandmother who provides some of the funniest lines of the play, despite continual rantings about the "man," her decesased husband and the past; Lola (Valerie Stephens), the grandmother, preoccupied with the many men in her life; Maydee (Diane Beckett) the mother, a middle-class academic waiting for a tenure offer; Maydee's daughter Vennie (Valerie Stephens), who has just dropped out of college and wants to be a singer; and Raisa (Ethelyn Friend), Vennie's white "best friend," who plays the observer to the family squabbles...
...credit, Kaurismaki manages to fill the film's emotional void with a truly brilliant absurdist humor--as if Samuel Beckett had collaborated with him on the screenplay. As funny as this can be, the characters suffer from their constant deadpanning (as in Beckett). They lose depth, becoming suckers for the director's mocking...
...Lisa Beckett, Brown (Fr., M) Marlton...