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Shvoong Home>Entertainment>Plays>Waiting for Godot Review

Waiting for Godot

Book Review   by:SM THOMPSON     Original Author: Samuel Beckett
  • Summary rating: 5 stars (1 Ratings)
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It was impossible for the writer to see clearly a link between my newly produced play and the classic drama: Waiting for Godot, the issues were blurred and needed a sharped edge to clarify the script so it was
agreed the play was indeed in the manner of Waiting for Godot bu that was in late Autumn 2OO9 when the play
was performed so it was laid to rest and rose again after England, then America where it is now a published work of art in 2O11:

So its interesting to read in THE TIMES ...

THEATRE:
West Yorkshire, Playhouse: Leeds:

The maw of existence, the absence of meaning, the futility, and loneliness of life - Samuel Beckett's drama, painful, painfully funny - filled with compassion - cruelty ... about suffering and small consolations, about love and fear and as such "It is Universal" comments the writer in THE TIMES: A touring production directed by Ian Brown his last as Artistic Director of West Yorkshire Playhouse was conceived with Pat Cumper who is to step down from running Talawa Theatre Co. First UK Staging - with all black British cast: to Beckett's masterpiece ..... I begin to feel I have read this somewhere before .......... did they not say something of the sort about our play
partnered by playwright and Turkey!

The Critic continues with comments on sequences and the duo beneath the blasted tree .. like them .. wont die
A fugue of sobbing begins with Burgess's ... panting .. Lucky .. slavering . weepng Estragon .. blinded Pozzo despairing Vladimir ..... grotesquely comical carousel of misery (it all reads like poetry so far so good)

RHYTHM:
Rhymically Brown's production ... feels a little choppy

PAUSES:
Paules . without cause

TENDERNESS
Thrown away

A heartbreaking Godot (and obviously here there is a key concent on the notion of "Heart") but lastly
the final line in this review is staggeringly good as follows:

"Fresh - intelligent - staging - that is - human"
SAM MARLOWE

Great work pays UP Thanks to THE TIMES: Excellent reading!
Published: February 09, 2012   
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