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...exhibit of German and Swiss painters and sculptors highlighting seven key pieces from the museum’s collection. Several undergraduates were also involved in the project and will be giving gallery talks. The Busch-Reisinger Museum. Free. (DJH & LRC)—Happening was compiled by Lois E. Beckett, Lindsay R. Canant, Ben B. Chung, Daniel J. Hemel, David F. Hill, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Kimberly A. Kicenuik, Lindsay A. Maizel, and April B. Wang...
Only the first section of introductory poems refers to the death of Carson’s mother directly, and even those are mediated by literary allusion. As tender as it is to remember visiting her mother being “like starting in on a piece by Beckett,” the epigraph she leaves is bare and cold: “There is so much wind here stones go blank.” The book is penned in defiance of this natural erasure, with Carson’s remembrances acting as a moving apotheosis for their subjects...
...Lois E. Beckett...
When Alan Schneider died in London in 1984 as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident, the American theater lost a director who had staged the U.S. or world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Tennessee Williams' Slapstick Tragedy. Schneider personified the central virtue, and failing, of serious American stage artists: he so prized his integrity that he generally disdained Broadway and mistrusted popular success. He spent most of his later years directing novices at regional or university theaters, rather than have to contend...
...second half of the book is a captivating record of 1956 to 1966, when the director's collaborations with Beckett and Albee brought all three to the pinnacle of esteem. Schneider, a born pessimist, details the missteps and agonies of doubt that led up to each landmark production and makes every victory seem as surprising in retrospect as it was to him at the time. Few books have so vividly portrayed the initial fragility of what now seem eternal works of dramatic writing. Schneider specifies some literate imbeciles who offhandedly dismissed the talents of Beckett, Harold Pinter and Eugene Ionesco...