Word: estragon
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Professionally, Williams looks to keep on flooring it over those cones. He may soon take the reins of his movie career and write himself a script. Next fall he plans to play Estragon, with Steve Martin as Vladimir, in the Mike Nichols production of Waiting for Godot -- thus synthesizing Juilliard and wackiness. Personally, however, Williams is quieter, more settled. He is past bouts of alcohol and cocaine dependence. Separated from his wife of nine years, he now keeps company with his personal secretary, Marsha Garces. And he is famously devoted to his four-year-old son Zachary...
Forecasters scanning the horizon for an economic recovery have begun to feel a bit like Vladimir and Estragon, those frustrated characters in the play Waiting for Godot who keep expecting something that never happens. Now in its 18th month, the recession has been a longer-running and more tragic drama than almost anyone originally predicted. For that reason, the TIME Board of Economists was extraordinarily cautious as it met last week in New York City to survey the outlook for the new year. The economists expect the recovery to begin during the first quarter of 1983, but rarely have they...
Mark Linn-Baker), whom McAnuff apparently fantasizes as clones of Waiting for Godot's Estragon and Vladimir. Stage left features the ornate living quarters of the Red Dragon, Manfred Von Richthofen (John Vickery), who is sometimes joined by his adjutant (Jeffrey Jones) and a swishy fellow pilot in the Flying Circus named Hermann Goering (Bob Gunton...
Paul Redford as Vladimir and Brian McCue as Estragon cannot be faulted for following these instructions; just quite the opposite, both strain to play up the many truly funny lines. But for the most part, their Odd Couple is more Camus and Sartre than Laurel and Hardy, blankly meditating on life's emptiness. Both are skilled actors, with exceptional diction, and their interplay is the highlight of this production. Their comprehension of the interchangeable nature of their roles seeps through each line: Vladimir speaks in verse, though Estragon is the poet. McCue and Redford mimic so subtlely that only during...
...blame Horwitz for a misinterpretation, or Cornuelle for a partially satisfying production when the nature of Beckett's play is so ambiguous? Everything and nothing makes sense. His characters are not only waiting for Godot, they are waiting for waiting, preoccupied with the lack of activity. Estragon cries out in an exasperated voice: "I don't know why I don't know!" and the hollowness of his confession typifies the void the playwright strives to create...