I'm going too see that in June!  Quite excited by it, I've seen Stewart as Prospero and he was great.  Unfortunately I missed McKellen as Lear, but I'm hoping he'll do it again at some point.

Anyway, for us X-Men fans its going to be fantastic to see them on stage together.

--- On Mon, 20/4/09, David Boyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: David Boyd <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT - Theater : Big Man Tries Beckett
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, 20 April, 2009, 9:57 AM
> Going to see soon the UK version
> with Stewart & McKellen:-
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>  
> http://living.scotsman.com/performing-arts/Theatre-Review-Waiting-For-Godot.5174527.jp
>  
> So, hope the actors get beyond the inherent riddle
> wrapped in enigma !
>  
> Regards
>  
> David 
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>  
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:55 AM,
> Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> 
> THEATER
>  
> Big Man Tries
> Beckett 
>  
> By Charles McGrath
>  
> excerpts
>  
> Mr. Goodman is a big man — he’s 6 foot 3, and his
> weight these days hovers around 300 pounds — and in his
> Pozzo getup he seems even bigger.
>  
> In person Mr. Goodman is not the stereotypical jolly
> fat man. For all his success, he remains full of self-doubt.
> Compliments make him wince, and his conversational default
> mode is self-deprecation. He sometimes seems to be eyeing
> himself with suspicion.
> 
>  
> “I could never please myself,” he explained.
> “That’s part of what fuels the alcoholic, I guess. You
> set yourself impossible goals, and then you kick yourself
> because you’re not good enough."
>  
> Mr. Goodman’s blue-collar roots had something to do
> with his temperament. He’s a "Midwestern boy who
> comes from a place where accepting praise and accolades is
> physically painful and even the hint of confidence in
> one’s talents is sin No. 1."
> 
>  
> Mr. Goodman was born and grew up in Affton, Mo., a
> working-class suburb of St. Louis.
>  
> Anthony Page, the
> director of the production, said: “ ‘Godot’ is
> actually a very hard play to learn. Nothing is apparently
> very logical, and there’s nothing to guide you except the
> words until you get into it.” As for Pozzo, “It’s a
> very difficult part to take in if you’re not used to being
> onstage.”
> 
>  
> Mr. Page knew Beckett and worked with him on an early
> revival of the play at the Royal Court Theater in London in
> 1964. “Beckett was very precise,” he recalled. “He
> didn’t want theories or any level of intellectualizing. He
> paid a lot of attention to the tone of voice and to the
> relationships among the characters. And he cared a great
> deal about the silences and the pauses.”
> 
>  
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html?_r=1&hpw
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