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Theatre, 1956, May, 05
Clurman, Harold | May 5, 1956 issue

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The article focuses on the play "Waiting for Godot." This play is directed by the Samuel Beckett. It is a poetic harlequinade-tragic and comic as the traditional Commedia dell' Arte usually was, full of horse play, high spirits, cruelty and a great wistfulness. Though the content is intellectual to a degree, the surface, which is at once terse, rapid and prolix in dialogue, is very much like a minstrel show or vaudeville turn. Complete disenchantment is at the heart of the play, but Beckett refuses to honor this disenchantment by a serious demeanor, Since life is an incomprehensible nullity enveloped by colorful patterns of fundamentally absurd and futile activities.

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WAITING for Godot (Theatrical production); CHILDREN'S plays; BECKETT, Samuel, 1906-1989; HUMOROUS poetry; TRAGEDY; CRUELTY; DIALOGUES
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