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Meanwhile at the American-Mission in Geneva George P. Schultz, looking like Ed Platt (The Grey-Haired Chief), Robert C. McFarlane, and others gather in their own transparent cubicle (this one has curtains) to plot the next move against the "Evil Empire", The USSR...
...production takes the play out of its unreal "bare interior, grey light" and into a post-apocalyptic reality that manages to be much more effective and powerful than a 28-year-old musing on being and nothingness. The subway cars, the flickering overhead light, the crumbling walls and ceiling--they are all part of this, the post-industrial age. The set may be a product of the '80s, but it is as true to Beckett as he was to himself 30 years...
...conceived by Beckett, Endgame is a verbal battle between men on the verge of extinction. His stage directions call for a bare interior, grey light, and two small windows. The only furniture is an armchair and two garbage cans. In the armchair sits the blind Hamm who spends all his time lording over his adopted son Clov, who proves mysteriously, incapable of disobedience to Hamm's tyrannical dictates. Hamm's ancient and dying parents, Nag and Nell, dwell in the garbage cans...
Cooke participates in a completely irrelevant scene that epitomizes the defects in the story line. Nigel, dressed in a grey leather jumpsuit, visits Selena's amusement park hideout, and asks her right-hand woman Bianca (Brenda Vaccaro) to summon Selena Selena appears, both women insult Cooke's suit, and they slam the door in his face...
...eclectic range of neighborhood structures include the Neo-Georgian style Fogg Museum, built in 1927; stark, aggresively modern Gund Hall; and high Gothic Memorial Hall. Stirling attempted to integrate the discordant themes of the area into the building, striping the outside of the building with bands of red and grey to echo the red, yellow and green tiles of Memorial Hall, for example...