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...could we use the most enigmatic play of the 20th century to talk about what happened in Katrina?” video artist Paul Chan remembers asking himself on a trip to New Orleans in the fall of 2006. His answer: a staging of Samuel Beckett??s “Waiting for Godot” in two devastated areas of the city. Beckett??s play, the story of two tramps waiting for a mysterious presence who never comes, puts into words the desolation of New Orleans and its residents. This 2007 project, a departure from Chan?...
Renowned comics artist Art Spiegelman is currently reading Samuel Beckett??s “Murphy.” Though the Pulitzer Prize winner lamented that it makes for poor travel reading, his choice of the modernist author hints at the wide array influences on his work, from everyday advertising to the highest realms of literature. Spiegelman, the politically active artist best known for his creation of “Maus,” a graphic novel based on his father’s experiences in a concentration camp, has just released “Breakdowns: Portrait...
...theater will be much appreciated and I hope she tries to further that relationship.”BEYOND BOUNDARIESHistorically, the A.R.T.’s aim of advancing the art of dramatic theater has led to remarkably innovative, if not occasionally risky, work. In 1984, a production of Samuel Beckett??s “Endgame” damaged the theatre’s relationship with the playwright when stage directions were interpreted too liberally. Paulus plans to continue and re-invigorate this mission of pushing theater to its boundaries.“I’m interested...
Voice—the newest incarnation of Epstein’s artist—was turned away from the audience, completely excluding them from the relationship between Beckett??s characters. He experimented with a description of his lover’s face, editing and restating a description of the moment in which he first saw her again and again. Epstein’s hauntingly lovelorn voice embodied the painful evolutionary process of artistic creation, one which ultimately brought him closer to his lover...
Director Scanlan ingeniously explored what happens when a play is no longer just a theatrical event. With the help of an intricate and versatile score by Martin Pearlman, and skilled actors and musicians across the board, Beckett??s plays entered a completely new and living dimension of performance...