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Article: Greeting `Waiting for Godot' with recognition, hostility
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 20, 1995
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WAITING FOR GODOT
Play in two acts by Samuel Beckett
Directed by David Wheeler. Set, Derek McLane. Costumes, by
Catherine Zuber. Lighting, John Ambrosone. Sound,
Christopher Walker. Presented by American Repertory
Theatre
At: Loeb Drama Center, through Feb. 12
CAMBRIDGE -- Samuel Beckett didn't expect the public to
understand "Waiting for Godot." He was after something far more
radical: He wanted the audience to recognize it.
His epochal accomplishment was to translate a psychological state
everyone has often felt, but no one had so clearly expressed before,
into specific theatrical terms of character, language, movement,
space and light. Vladimir and Estragon are bums ...