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...friends at the Loeb, your attention we beg, Don't let Beckett prevent you from breaking a leg. For Ozment who o'ersees the vaunted CUE guide. Don't cower--go on, be subjective, be snide. If professors don't like what you say of their course. One look at their students will rid their course. One look at their students will rid their remorse. For Sociology youngsters Skocpol and Starr. Tenure--so close and yet ever so far. And to Carlo Rubbia we must give our praise. For chasing those atoms for days and for days. Now Georgi, Glashow...
...Beckett may be, as ART members protest, the greatest living playwright--my money's on Tom Stoppard--but he oversteps his artistic bounds when he insists that all productions of his minimalist angst orgy treat Beckett's radicalism as orthodoxy...
...production, with its breathtaking subway set by Douglas Stein, appears more than anything else a valiant attempt to instill some life into what is essentially a theatrical museum piece. Director JoAnna Akalaitis has remained dutifully faithful to the script--down to Beckett's own mention of the Ritz cracker--even when the dialogue becomes an awkward partner to the massive visual impact of the subterranean set and Hamm and Clov garbed respectively as a Rastafarian and a grown-up street urchin...
...powerful than a 28-year-old musing on being and nothingness. The subway cars, the flickering overhead light, the crumbling walls and ceiling--they are all part of this, the post-industrial age. The set may be a product of the '80s, but it is as true to Beckett as he was to himself 30 years...
...right, Beckett et al would be well advised to note that even if the playwright's name is still be revered among the true believers, his work is not so timeless that it could not benefit from a quick boost by those who'd like to see Samuel Beckett become more than a Cold War artifact...