> 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>
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So, hope the actors get beyond the inherent riddle
> wrapped in enigma
!
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> Regards
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>
David
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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:55
AM,
> Chokh Raj <
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wrote:
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THEATER
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> Big Man Tries
> Beckett
>
> By
Charles McGrath
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> 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.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html?_r=1&hpw>
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