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Article: 'Godot' enlivened by lighter touch.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(THEATER)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2004
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Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Waiting for Godot" - it's a guy thing. The existential equivalent of hogging the remote, Samuel Beckett's play was just one of those testosterone fixations this woman could never understand. A woman would never wait days on end for some guy - symbolizing the disinterested divine or no - who never shows up. She wouldn't let her best friend be a doormat, either.
Consequently, productions of "Godot" have always left this critic bored or baffled. Reading reviews and looking over archival stills of the U.S. premiere of "Godot," starring Bert Lahr as Estragon and Tom Ewell as Vladimir, you could detect the comedic ...