Beckett is funny: people seem to often overlook that fact. Productions of Waiting for Godot that get that fact tend to be much better than those with dour seriousness. You put his craggy mug up there and suddenly it’s art with a capital Arrrr! Slapstick is a fundamental element of his work however, so no…
Category: Beckett
London Update
Well, I have been a poor correspondent, no doubt — on the plus side, it’s because I’m having too good a time. For some alternate updates of a brief nature, check the Twitter stream in the right hand column of this blog, but even that only happens when I hit some free wifi as I’m…
NYC and Beckett
I headed down to the city on Saturday and the first stop was to have brunch with pal Dana from the Horror list. Dana joined the list when he was thirteen, so he made me feel ancient. Nonetheless we had a good time laughing and gossiping over our meal at Iguana. After our meal, I…
Waiting for Waiting for Godot
Just got tickets today for a version of Godot with some heavy hitters at The Roundabout Theatre’s Studio 54: Two-time Tony Award® winner Nathan Lane, Tony Award® winner Bill Irwin, Golden Globe® winner John Goodman and Tony Award® winner John Glover star in Samuel Beckett’s cryptic and comical play, Waiting for Godot, directed by Tony…
K. A. Laity 