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Article: Waiting For Beckett
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 8, 1988
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TRYING TO MEET the reclusive playwright Samuel Beckett was rather
like a scene from one of his enigmatic plays, says director Robert
McNamara, whose production of Beckett's "Endgame" is at Source
Theater's Mainstage as part of his new Scena troupe's three-play
winter repertory.
While he was artistic director for Dublin's Stage One Theatre in
the late '70s, McNamara began to correspond with the playwright. "I
directed several of his plays, including `Krapp's Last Tape,' and
produced a one-man show adapted from Beckett's novels, and it was
quite well received in the press," McNamara says. Then, from out of
the blue, "I got a letter from Beckett, who said, `If I'd have known
you were going ...