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Where in the world are works like this today? Where are they being written? Where are they being performed? Would anyone want to read something like Waiting for Godot today -- or watch it onstage -- unless it were already a classic?
Surely there are avant garde theatres and playwrights still out there, but the work they do never achieves any recognition beyond the subcultures on the periphery, never finds it way into the mainstream, and those playwrights must necessarily toil in obscurity until t ...more
Surely there are avant garde theatres and playwrights still out there, but the work they do never achieves any recognition beyond the subcultures on the periphery, never finds it way into the mainstream, and those playwrights must necessarily toil in obscurity until t ...more
I listened to the audiobook while I read it, which I highly recommend for anyone reading a play you haven't seen performed. I had only read an excerpt of it in high school as part of our study of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead—two of the 20th century's finest plays, in my opinion!
And once you've read it you can fully enjoy this sketch by James Corden and Benedict Cumberbatch. You're welcome: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=220... ...more
And once you've read it you can fully enjoy this sketch by James Corden and Benedict Cumberbatch. You're welcome: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=220... ...more
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This isn't my cup of tea, but I suppose I am glad that I read it. The thing is I had an idea that I might not like it, but instead of running away in fear I just did it. And afterwards I read some online analysis which helped me understand it better. Without that I may have given it only 1 star. The truth is I am incapable of reviewing this one as it seems there is nothing there. It seems to this reader that the book is about nothing. And, without a plot that intrigues or characters I love the s
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