No one ever goes gentle into the night of Samuel Beckett. No one jumps in excitement at the chance to see one of his plays. Calling his works “plays” is an oxymoron. They are bleak and dark, existential examples of depression at its best, pitch black in theme, and filled...
No one ever goes gentle into the night of Samuel Beckett. No one jumps in excitement at the chance to see one of his plays.
It's the “yet” that matters. Beckett once said that he wrote plays because he hated theater. His anti-dramas are now cemented in the theater canon. He would win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Notice, he didn't win for Drama. Director Jason Nodler, also at the top of his game, loves him some Beckett. He treats him with grand respect and elicits every ounce of nuance and mystery. The ebb and flow is masterful, as ennui leaps to childlike faith in what is to come, only to crash to earth in despair.
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