Waiting for Godot (first page)
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Tradition : The Greeks, Shakespeare, Dada, Biomechanics and etc. [hyperlinks]
5. BEING AND WAITING: THE QUESTION OF GODOT (Being as Waiting)
THREE THINGS AT LEAST are important to the consideration of Waiting for Godot: its association with the traditions of the clown and with vaudeville, the question of Godot and his meaning, and the strategies of waiting.
[ Samuel Beckett: The Language of Self
Book by Frederick J. Hoffman; Southern Illinois University Press, 1962 biblio ]
* Pre-show: tableaus (Two, Pozzo-Lucky, the two in different position -- how many times?) Light is up, down -- changes... Music.
Act I (playscript)
"Beckett: View from the Future" = Postmodern Perspective (Alaska, USA) -- desert, cold, tree is sleeping, no snow...
Godot AK, USA -- that's the challenge! Director's Notes? America is not waiting for anything or anybody... 70% do believe in God? America or AmeriKa?
"Vladimir" play, or "Estragon" story -- traditional throughlines... "Title Characters" = heroes? Aristotle : tragedy (Hamlet, Oedipus -- and comedy (Wilde tradition and 12th Night) -- (no drama, i.e. melodrama, only as parody).
Chorus = public (how to make it visible?) Boy = messenger irony? Reference -- Sophocles).
The smell of Stoppard is everywhere!
Intellectual "Poor Theatre"? Grotowski
Beckett as philosopher (Plato's Dialogues? Ironic) Return of the oral tradition?
Kabuki style? Puppet Theatre elements...
Americans and Godot: forms to ask public/actors (?)
"Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?" --Samuel Beckett's Vladimir
"For many, the theatre is the abode where dreams are created. You, players, sellers of drugs, in your darkened houses people are changed into kings and perform heroic deeds of safety. In rapture over themselves, or seized with pity they sit in happy distraction, forgetting the toils of daily life. Runaways...." --Bertolt Brecht
Happy Birthday Beckett: "Rosset finally convinced Beckett to allow him to become his American publisher. "We paid $100 dollar advance for Godot," he recalls, sifting through the fog of half a century. "It might have been $150, but I think it was $100. Beckett was the first living author Grove published." Rosset became not only Beckett's American publisher but also his literary agent in the U.S."
beckettat100.com: Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition
with an introduction by S.E. Gontarski
ISBN: 0-8021-1821-6 * ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1821-9 * US$22.00
Waiting for Godot
A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Sam liked Chekhov; back to 3 Sisters?
One (crazy) Russian claims the he coined that idea "Code De Vinci" (works for the Hermitage): Mona Lisa is a combination of two -- Jesus and Maria. (His book "Orthodoxy in Colors"). What about combination of writer and character?
Chekhov and Vershinin, Anton and Masha -- monsters, existing only on the pages? Or angels. Tolstoy and Karenina. Crossing your gender limitations -- and giving the phantom to perform to actor (live stranger).
Beckett as Vladimir, ... Beckett as Godot.
Where? Everywhere!
Who is Godot?
You. Me. She, he, they...
What's the difference between silence and text?
Between Dante and child's talk?
And Nietzsche went mad.
by Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 0-8021-3034-8 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3034-1
Monologue Study: 1 101 * 2 comedy * 3 drama *
... Absurd? A miracle is absurd! Broken logic and normality. Such as life.
[ back to Film600: Bad Subjects, Wrong Theories ]
... Godot directs Caligari -- "Second Life"?
