Word: hamm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a recent visit to Harvard's Loeb Drama Center, the Open Theater demonstrated its traditional expertise at oldfangled script-drama with a superbly subtle production of Endgame. Chaikin himself counterpointed Beckett's black doomsplay with a singsong, smiling-Buddha portrayal of blind, crippled Hamm. Beckett's line, "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness," might have served as production motto...
...like to talk about that in general because it is a central issue in all our work. Each piece dictates how you approach that issue. Like. in Endgame, if I could say it is about something. I believe it is about presence, Hamm at some point says to Cloy-You know what. I never realized I was never there. it all happened without me-meaning. I think, that one can be in the place that something is happening bodily but really not be there. And being there is something that really counts. Later Cloy says-I say to myself. Cloy...
...talking to the audience. sometimes talking to themselves. These few little facts are actual, you can discover certain actualities of the situation, such as one man cannot sit, the other cannot stand. It seemed like it would be extremely limiting to get very involved in the question of whether Hamm and Cloy are two parts of the same men-which I've heard a thousand times, Esslin is one of the people who says this, the divided self - you know...