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...SAMUEL BECKETT HAS EARNED the reputation of one of the greatest novelists and playwrights of our time; but Beckett the poet has gone virtually unnoticed. Part of the reason is this--of Beckett's 26 literary publications only one is a collection of poetry...
Ireland has long specialized in the export (sometimes mixed) of fine whisky and great writers. For every Swift, Synge or Yeats who stayed at home, there was a Wilde, Shaw or Beckett who packed off to escape artistic repression at the hands of what fellow Expatriate James Joyce called "a priestridden Godforsaken race...
...SAMUEL BECKETT...
...When Beckett presents a comedy of manners, as in Come and Go, he includes three women, gossip, hypocrisy, but no drawing room, and no second or third act. Although the play does have plot reversals, they are less reminiscent of the action in School for Scandal than of the printouts of a computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme...
Just as silence and darkness are one for the woman, so too sound and light are one for Krieger. Beckett's original stage directions call for one spotlight hung low in front to swing over the faces. Krieger has moved the spotlight according to her own design. She places it high behind the actors to play on the backs of their heads, on and off like the metronome. Since the stage is otherwise dark, the actors' faces cannot be seen. They appear only in outline, like the images of film negatives; or through their partially transparent urns like...