Word: rastafarianism
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...winds twice in five days, and by the time the ordeal is over, you are infinitely thankful to be back where you were when you started, and not fighting your way through a mass of elbows, or bouncing around at 10,000 feet, confessing your sins to the Rastafarian in the seat next to you. It makes you glad to be alive...
...theatrical museum piece. Director JoAnna Akalaitis has remained dutifully faithful to the script--down to Beckett's own mention of the Ritz cracker--even when the dialogue becomes an awkward partner to the massive visual impact of the subterranean set and Hamm and Clov garbed respectively as a Rastafarian and a grown-up street urchin...
Unfortunately, Akalaitis' re-interpretation loses some of the values of Beckett's conception. Hamm, looking like a Rastafarian king on his throne, lacks the self-consciousness befitting lines like, "An aside, Ape! Did you never hear an aside." Even the phrasing of that line suggests a more cultivated mind, acutely aware of his dramatic presence. Although Beckett's characters are painfully aware of their calculated, verbal chess match, Akalaitis' flail at each other in fits of rage. A more cold-blooded conversation would make Hamm's torture of Clov seem more horrifyingly vicious and his occasional displays of genuine emotion...
...Marley, 36, Jamaican prince of reggae, the distinctive, pulsing Caribbean blend of calypso and soul music that carries a weighty message of black pride, peace and Rastafarian religion. Marley rose from the slums of Kingston to become a national hero and international star...
...Street, a retired candy manufacturer from Philadelphia. Street's wife Margaret, a faded Maine beauty queen, stumbles on the intruder in her closet. Her screams alarm the household. Sydney, the family butler, procures the family pistol and investigates. He reappears with his quarry: a ragged black apparition in Rastafarian dreadlocks. Valerian offers the man a drink and invites him to eat the collapsed remains of a souffle. Jadine, Sydney's visiting niece, stares at him with mink eyes...