Word: estragon
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...sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be?... At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep...
Director Harold Scott's conception of Godot is fuzzy at best. He appears to believe that the play is about the brotherhood of man, and the production has been so ethnicized that it makes Beckett into a kind of emcee for United Nations Day. Leland Moss' Estragon seems to have been imported from a Catskills road company of Fiddler on the Roof. His gestures might have been modelled on Menasha Skulnik's, his lines threaten to slip into Yiddish, and the "nu's" and the "oy's" and the Diaspora world-weariness almost crown Beckett the prince of pushcart playwrights...
Roger Robinson's Vladimir is efficiently played, and he seems to capture the right balance of character and lack of identity. Robinson is black, and the idea of a black Vladimir is stunning and certainly feasible. However, it is mind-boggling that Estragon's speech describing Vladimir's world view as "black" clicits from Robinson a clenched, upraised fist. Moreover, such a gesture is tasteless in context...
...Estragon...
...Loeb, however. Vladimir and Estragon smile, exchange hearty fratternity-house slaps, advance eagerly toward the wings as if to leave, and fall short of taking a full exit only by freezing into a tableau. The'Loeb's Waiting for Godot has a happy ending...