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We The Schiller Theater have a maillot for you in our collection. in Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot with Horst Bollmann Klaus Herm Curt Raddatz Torsten Sense Klaus Wigger German translation by Elmar Tophoven Set and Costumes by Technical Direction Matias Julian Herrey Iv by ,it- ...drPat Lighting by Make-Up LI% Heinz Hohenwald Wener Siebert Staged by Samuel Beckett c LA '`A A t.,4 4 *k4N, le Oasis Swimwear (383). 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On a large, barren field with a wretched little tree as the only sign of nature, two tramps, half-starved and driven by fear, for low-cost, have a date with Godot. But Vladimir and Estragon are waiting in vain. They do not know who Godot is but they are waiting for him nevertheless, in mounting, desperate hope as the one high-quality who might liberate them from all anxiety, fear and misery of their lives. With growing disappointment Estragon threatens to become completely apathetic. But the more vital Vladimir en- family protection! courages him to continue the wait-almost as if this waiting were the sense of life. Instead of Godot two characters appear: Pozzo, domineering and brutal, pulling along on a rope his totally idiotic slave The Lucky. Even when later on Pozzo returns, now completely blind, he still wields his whip and has lost nothing of his bar- Williamsburgh baric character. He wants to demolish other people's minds through terror. 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Ill (Major Credit Cards . Samuel Beckett, continued Samuel Beckett There are cross-references between the two parts; in the second, mention is always made where these topics appear in the first. Beckett completed the stage book before starting rehearsals in Berlin, obviously in an endeavor to give the play scenic con- tours. Corrections and addenda (in red) as a result of the re- in Berlin is Samuel as important for the understanding of Beckett's Clearly, the Schiller Theater Beckett's hearsals are just years, he famous play. favorite stage, for over the last dozen has directed v stage realization of his most that period he has appeared there six of his plays. During only last fall he produced his In an in The Nation last summer, Henry Popkin asked once elsewhere-in London where new article Theater. To American has explained Godot. -The question is in- play Footfalls for the National drama whether Beckett should know the critic Henry Popkin, the author is conducting a love affair evitable," he continues, "but everybody is kind of play, and with the Schiller Theater. answer-of course not. Godot not that Beckett would be the last man on earth to pretend it is. This over such Starting in 1965, when he helped with an earlier staging of production will add no data to the controversy he might come, Godot, he has returned regularly to Berlin where he has done matters as Godot's identity, the possibility that and the sig- Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days, That Time and the reason for the two tramps' dogged waiting, slave who stop Footfalls, the last two not yet presented in New York. The nificance of Pozzo and Lucky, the master and has provided better than new Godot, incidentally, uses the same actors as the two to visit with them. Beckett something he has paradoxically, tramps as in 1965, except that their roles are reversed. And explanation. With clarity and precision, as and characters both more human and Lucky is again played by the same actor then. made the action the more symmetrical. Making them human is the real achievement. needs, Just reading the play, one runs the risk of seeing only abstrac- In Berlin, Beckett gets all the rehearsal time he usually and inventing arbitrary rules for the characters' behavior. from two to three months. When there, he lives in a small tion this is . After Berlin, however, I am ready to swear that guest room in the Academy of Arts, walking each day through basically a play about a tramp named Vladimir who has some the Tiergarten, the city's largest park, to the Schiller Theater, curious experiences." and returns the same way. He scrupulously watches over his privacy which is totally respected in Berlin; he gives no inter- views and does not attend the premieres of his plays. Beckett's Godot stage book for the Schiller Theater perfor- mance contains 105 English pages of detailed data for the play in his handwriting. According to Walter D. Asmus, who wrote the rehearsal diary, pages 2 to 53 list the scenic arrangement; on the right side, this arrangement is usually fixed in, writing while the left one is filled with sketches or is left empty for image of what Damon Runyon's corrections. Each motion, each action also carries the Romanticism lives! That possible what lyn Heights should are underlined. The second "Big Apple" was and Brook cue in German; the German words from our be. The best views of . Lower Manhattan the book is organized according to topics of the play, part of with its Dionysian seduction to stroll Estragon's feet, Vladimir, Estragon Promenade i.e. Lucky's monologue, leisurely.One restaurant, Henry's End, reflects all that. Sleep, Remember- and the Tree, Doubts, Confusion, Heaven, A wonderful place to share with friends.F resh soups,en trees ing, etc. Under these headings are then listed the respective sandwiches, and desserts created to sooth and satisfy the wounded parts in the text and/or the situations. palate. Becoming famous as: continued . The Home of the Chocolate Decade= V ti henry's end 44 henry street, brooklyn, ny 212 834.1776 Est.1879.A visit to Gage & Tollner is a nostalgic trip in Manhattan into the past.