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...experienced truth about man himself" is often better expressed in the "theater of the absurd" than in the Prayer Book, he says, and he puts drama into his unconventional Sunday services. Instead of a sermon, St. Clement's may feature a scene from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In addition to readings from the Epistles and Gospels, the service has a "contemporary epistle"; last Sunday it was a passage from John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Actors are not the only ones who find a sense of community at St. Clement's; the congregation...
...Theatre Company of Boston, which usually resides in the Hotel Bostonian, will venture to Agassiz Hall tonight for its second and last performance of "Waiting for Godot." The Civil Rights Coordinating Committee is sponsoring the presentation, which will begin at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door...
...always about to go down to Sidcup to get the papers that prove who he is. The bum feels called upon to assert his sanity by bursting into prideful indignation at vaguely appropriate moments. His finicky concern about his shoes, especially, reminds one of the bums in Waiting for Godot. He can't remember his birthday...
...this repertory group, gives the audience some good comedy as Alex, but I am disappointed to see how inflexible he is an actor. He adds a slight Scottish burr for the present occasion; otherwise he hasn't changed a whit from what he was in Waiting for Godot and Picnic on the Battle-field, other recent Theatre Company productions. A born comic like Benedict is of little use in repertory theater if he cannot adapt to new roles...
Although Beckett's Waiting for Godot is--despite most critics--an optimistic work, the title of Happy Days is blatantly ironic. Throughout the play, the outlook--both literal and figurative--is bleak. Death and annihilation are imminent. The whole work is a study in irony--and the irony, in both word and action, is heightened by the ludicrous situational context. And it is ludicrous. In spite of all the pathos and the spectre of death. Happy Days is on balance a comedy. Many of Winnie's actions are highly funny, and she is by no means reluctant to crack puns...