Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Theater News:

From Beckett's letters, 1952: "You ask me for my ideas on Waiting for Godot and my ideas on the theatre. I have no ideas on the theatre. I know nothing about it. I never go. That's reasonable."

From Edward Albee's 2006 introduction to the Grove Centenary Edition of Beckett's complete plays: "I am always deeply puzzled when people say of Beckett, 'Oh, he's so difficult!'—or avant-garde, or complex, or ambiguous. It is the profoundest nonsense, for Beckett is perhaps the most naturalistic playwright I know of, as well as the clearest and least obscure."

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