Samuel Beckett

Anyone of you read his shit? What do you think of it?

 

Nobody is going to like, answer my question?

 

Give them some time to google.

 

I think it's funny that people buy the rights for "breath"

and I enjoy waiting for godot.

 

Bless you Willie I do appreciate your goodness I know what an effort it costs you, now you may relax I shall not trouble you again unless I am obliged, by that I mean unless I come to the end of my own resources which is most unlikely, just to know that in theory you can hear me even though in fact you don't is all I need, just to feel you there within earshot and conceivably on the que vive is all I ask, not to say anything I would not wish you to hear or liable to cause pain, not to be just babbling away on trust as it is were not knowing and something gnawing at me.

 

How would you rate in in a scale of 1-10? I wonder if I should read it.

 

Well, it's over-rated, so, that knocks it down to about a seven, but it is still a very good read.

 

Yeah, I meant the product in isolation rather than what dilettantes choose to believe about said product.

 

Art isn't art if it cannot stand outside of isolalation.

honestly? you'd just be better watching it. there is a b-ish list celeb version on dvd somewhere that's passable, it's not great, but it's good enough that youd get what you needed to get out of it.

 

Film takes too much of my time. Novels too. That's why I'm hesitant. I only read two-act plays and poetry these days. In one sitting I can say I'm cultured.

 

God I hate Beckett. It seems as if if every English Prof./Theatre Prof. loves him though. I don't see it.

 

I hate reading scripts because it's meant to be a production.

there are a few REALLY good versions of waiting for godot with production notes, etc. but you can find those versions dramatized "on tape" and just listen to them on your mp3 player while you're, hell, posting here.

 

because of the inside jokes.

it's like "noises off" it's a play about performing a play

theatre people LOVE it because it is such a brutally honest depiction of theatre culture (micheal frayne) and it's a british sex farce (which theatre people can't stay away from.)

beckett does the same thing.

 

You read Happy Days, Dave?

 

nope.

Right now I'm trudging through some other stuff.

 

I'm a theatre person and I stay away from Beckett, but I'm not much of a fan of the absurd. Maybe this biases my opinion.

I guess it's like noises off, except noises off is actually funny!

 

What drama do you liek?

 

Beckett is funny!

you just have to accept that it's existentially absurd instead of directly absurd.

Honestly, I do think some of it is a bit pretentious, but if you accept the pretentious stuff, it is funny.

it's just the state of mind you're willing to be in when you read it.

 

I like me some Brecht too.

 

I actually like tom stoppard....