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Happy Days, Samuel Beckett's two act, two character play about desolation and an enduring human spirit, begins its first weekend of performances tonight at the Loeb. This is the Summer Repertory Theater's last production of the season, and its most difficult one. Sustaining an actionless duologue is no simple feat, but the play manages to carry it off. Joanne Hamlin, who delivers most of the lines in the show, gives a fine performance under difficult circumstances. Still, the play and the production are not too satisfying. Geoff Garin's review appears on page two of this issue. Tickets...
DESPITE ALL of Samuel Beckett's considerable sympathy for the plight of humankind, his plays show little pity for the people who would undertake to produce them. Almost without exception, his theater pieces require magnificent acting and brilliant directorial interpretation for them to work half well on the stage. With little action to portray and only a few clues to Beckett's true intentions, a theater company, particularly one that's not thoroughly professional, sets itself up for tremendous risks when it tries to give life to the playwright's philosophical musings...
...recurring theme, since many of the men and women interviewed are over 65. In fact, younger writers get hardly any representation at all in this collection, and the "radical innovators"--Samuel Beckett, Nathalie Sarraute, Eugene Ionesco--have all been around for quite a while, Surely Shenker could have made room for some new faces by omitting a few of the more trivial pieces--for instance, "Howlers," a collection of high-school malapropisms only slightly above the level of Kids Say the Darnedest Things...
Seth Reimer's Lovers Not is an original play; Reimer's directed Shakespeare and Beckett at the Ex, I think. Opens tonight at 7:30 at the Loeb Ex; this weekend only...
...should be very surprised to find out that Mr. Shapiro had read much by or about this author. Beckett was, of course, born in 1906 in Ireland (Foxrock, County Dublin) and educated at Trinity College before he departed for France. If one wished to take a colonialist point of view one might possibly say that Beckett was born in the then United Kingdom, or even in the so-called British Isles...