Word: godot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Beckett (1906-89) would have been 90 this year, and to celebrate his indelible mark on the modern spirit, the Gate Theatre of Dublin came to New York City's Lincoln Center with productions of all 19 works he wrote for the stage, from the full-length Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Happy Days to the 40-second Breath. (Another 13 pieces were composed for radio, TV or film...
...called it En Attendant (Waiting, later Waiting for Godot), and it was just the jolt of negative energy that a somnolent postwar theater needed. Vladimir and Estragon, two tramplike figures in a blank landscape, pass the time in Act I "blathering about nothing in particular," as Estragon notes, while awaiting the arrival of the never-to-arrive Godot. They spend Act II doing the same thing. As one critic said, "Nothing happens, twice...
Penn's offense was extremely slow and deliberate, happy to wait for long periods of time to get the right shot. Waiting for Godot, that is. The right shot was not exactly presented to the Quakers on a silver platter. A Penn offensive sequence would more often end with a bad pass or a timely stick check from Harvard than with a good shot...
...issues and try to get people to turn on each other." His tough task now, Clinton conceded, was to "outsmart them" by seeing "what works and what doesn't work and then talk about it." Some liberal Democratic House staff members hope the President's study will become the "Godot review"-pending but never delivered. But White House aides are telling lobbyists that changes will be recommended, including limiting the size of government subsidies, paring programs that set aside government contracts for minorities and adding the criterion of economic need to benefits now dispensed on race or gender...
...most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying his solitude until another arrives; it is a French existential drama in miniature, a No Exit or Godot with a sweeter aftertaste...