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...Death of a Salesman.” The story of Willie Loman’s downfall and the death of the American Dream would hit just a little too close to home for all the future i-bankers here. 2. “Waiting for Godot.” Putting up this famously inscrutable play on campus would give us all even more of an excuse to bandy about words like “existentialism” and “Ubermensch” with reckless abandon, and that’s just dangerous. 1. “Moulin Rouge...
Remember that it’s a privilege to have to have choices. This is freedom at work, baby. Avoiding them will leave you waiting for Godot, in an endless cycle of aimlessness...
When Alan Schneider died in London in 1984 as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident, the American theater lost a director who had staged the U.S. or world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Tennessee Williams' Slapstick Tragedy. Schneider personified the central virtue, and failing, of serious American stage artists: he so prized his integrity that he generally disdained Broadway and mistrusted popular success. He spent most of his later years directing novices at regional or university theaters, rather than have to contend...
...time. Few books have so vividly portrayed the initial fragility of what now seem eternal works of dramatic writing. Schneider specifies some literate imbeciles who offhandedly dismissed the talents of Beckett, Harold Pinter and Eugene Ionesco. He recalls how Bert Lahr willfully misread Godot, trying to recast it as one of his old vaudeville routines. He depicts runaway egotism among the stars of Virginia Woolf, one conniving to get her husband hired in place of her leading man, another threatening to quit because everyone else in the cast was taller, and he therefore felt emasculated. And Schneider cites Williams...
...condition she could keep them and never bring them to sale. This is no longer documentary footage of the real participants. Now, Welles acts out the entire scenario with, ostensibly, the woman involved, in a dank set that resembles an avant-garde production of “Waiting for Godot...