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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
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“A German theater has been barred from staging Samuel Beckett’s absurdist
masterpiece Waiting for Godot with women in the two key roles, Agence France-Presse reported. The orders came from Beckett’s German publishers.... “This manner of defending the holy grail is a bad joke [said the manager of the German theater where it was to have been performed].” He noted that the publishing house explained that its action was taken out of respect for Beckett’s wishes that women never perform in Waiting for Godot. The Daily Telegraph of London said the director...had cast women in the roles of Lucky and Estragon, leaving males in the roles of Vladimir and Pozzo in a sexually charged interpretation.” New York Times January 21 04 THE GODOT MONOLOGUES Act II, Scene III An empty stage. Enter Estrogen and Fucky. Fucky: [looks about wildly] Where’s my Putzo gone to? Estrogen: He and Viagramir are comparing penises again. Fucky: Men are so obsessed. You know, Estrogen, you and I have something interesting too. People think vaginas are nothing, but they’re really something, aren’t they? Estrogen: Yeah, but people just don’t talk about them. I mean, you know, they make jokes about them like what’s the Martha Washington monument a big hole and that sort of thing but they don’t really talk about them... Fucky: Yeah, I mean if you want nothing then watch some stupid play by a man who’s displacing his phallic anxiety onto metaphysical bullshit about the emptiness of modern life blah blah blah... Estrogen: A man who’d specify before he died that women could never perform in his play. Fucky: Prick. Estrogen: He killed Lucia Joyce too. |