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WAITING FOR GODOT Today

Posted by:	sergius 11:20 pm EDT 03/19/14

Just a magnificent, shimmering play. Over and over again, it's tender and plaintive and deeply funny. Here, McKellan and Stewart are surprisingly game and agile comics--British music hall types as opposed to the American vaudevillians Lane and Irwin gave us a few years ago--and their ceaselessly inventive hijinks and shenanigans keep the play bouncing along. There were moments when McKellan, such an aptly, rigorously old man, was difficult to hear, and moments when the playing was so spirited that the language was lost a bit in the shuffle, but still, when the material is this gorgeous and the acting this nuanced, the experience is really treasurable. There may, in fact, be no lack of void but neither is there a lack of vigor in the face of that void which is, of course, just as Beckett would have it. WAITING FOR GODOT is a glory.

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