By: JaneRadriges

JaneRadriges — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:58:56 +0000

I really like your post. Does it copyright protected?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:02:58 +0000

Interesting review. I haven’t seen either play (Hamlet below – you hit the nail on the head I think with the bare bones 21st C Hamlet), but reading these, I feel I don’t have to . As Godot is about Fictions of the ‘ending’ whilst waiting (the French ‘En attendant’ can read this way), and ‘ending’ itself a fiction of narrative, as I’m sure Beckett was aware, the reference to Pozzo and Lucky going to another fiction is rather striking. All fictions are reductive, but perhaps none more so than our historical reduction of humanity into slave/master or winner/loser, which would inevitably reduce any future to a horror/nightmare – rather like that perceived by Wells in the closing stages of The Time Machine (if we follow Darwinian Cosmology to its logical conclusions). Another thought – in previous productions I have seen, I have thought of Pozzo and Lucky in carnival terms (with a dash of Artaud perhaps…). Maybe from a Bakhtinian perspective, Horror is the modern carnival – an all too realistic (but nonetheless metaphorical) eating of the flesh, but still not powerful enough to really grasp our dual nature in the way Rabelais et al could. Anyhow, as with Jan, I love this play too, and its shared anxieties are ever relevant, so thanks!

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:05:57 +0000

I love this play! This is a really nice review, Alasdair. I wish I could’ve seen Stewart and Mckellen in this! Thanks for sharing!

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