What a coincidence! I watched this only days ago...
The pathos in Irons' depiction particularly of the silent partner was unexpected, and yet moving. I know that this matter of pathos and affect was always a knot of difficulty in Beckett's theater, and a quality he suppressed as a director in favor of flat affect & monotony in speech (as recounted in the newly-published Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett; but here a slightly more affective technique helped me to "understand" this piece as never before...
Beckett died the same year as his wife Suzanne Descheveaux-Dumesnil--and yet this work feels to me now as the very powerful testament of a widower...
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Nice find Mark.
Thanks. what did you think of it?
I loved it. Nice find indeed: compelling.
I found that my own knocking echoed in this little drama. The knocking became so loud that it scared me.
What a coincidence! I watched this only days ago...
The pathos in Irons' depiction particularly of the silent partner was unexpected, and yet moving. I know that this matter of pathos and affect was always a knot of difficulty in Beckett's theater, and a quality he suppressed as a director in favor of flat affect & monotony in speech (as recounted in the newly-published Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett; but here a slightly more affective technique helped me to "understand" this piece as never before...
Beckett died the same year as his wife Suzanne Descheveaux-Dumesnil--and yet this work feels to me now as the very powerful testament of a widower...
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