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Underneath this droll gimmick, however, is much more. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are at the center of Stoppard's work, and they become its tragic heroes. Like Didi and Gogo, who bide their time with games of the spirit while waiting for the never-to-appear Godot, Stoppard's heroes devise their own games to endure the waiting for their Godot...
...runs rampant with Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, while Tartuffe adds Gallic spice to the Elizabethan fare. On July 22, The Three Musketeers swashbuckle their way on stage, and on July 23, some Chekhovian melancholy is introduced in The Seagull. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot provides a 20th century touch beginning Aug. 13. The season ends...
CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt., from July 22 through Sept. 21. Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, and Henry IV, Part 2, are the Shakespearean entries, counterpointed by Waiting for Godot...
...must love one another or die," wrote W. H. Auden. Fire! proclaims that love is dead, God is dead, and man is dying. The playwright is a onetime actor now living in Europe who has adopted the pseudonym John Roc; he is a demi-Beckett who does not await Godot but screams at the heavens precisely be cause they are empty. He is sometimes pretentious, often confusing, and lavish with lavender words, but his drama rips into an audience with volcanic force...
...Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna fly to him." and "When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna want a doze." The last is a pun on "want a doze." and "want a dose." Of course the whole scene is a lot like Waiting for Godot, which brings in God and religion and which sounds right for Dylan. And maybe H can be a religion. What this song's got in common with the other two is the message in the following lines: "Everybody's building ships and boat; some are building monuments; some are jotting...