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Beckett: Style and Desire
Gold, Herbert | November 10, 1956 issue

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The play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett awakened passions seldom used by the contemporary theatre. Customarily a play flops or captures the women's club bookings or wins the Pulitzer prize and is then swiftly forgotten. This wild one has everyone still wildly explaining. It is said to be a play about the hopeless quest for God, Sex, Truth, Friendship. It is a Chaplinesque moral comedy about anarchic individuality, a religious morality play. It is burlesque and satire and a pathetic melodrama. In Miami they walked out and in New York the run was extended.

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WAITING for Godot (Theatrical production); BECKETT, Samuel, 1906-1989; EMOTIONS; DRAMA; THEATER; MELODRAMA
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