tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post5680793663737888716..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Beckett: A Birthday ThoughtNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-32051196152548367722009-04-29T15:30:00.000+01:002009-04-29T15:30:00.000+01:00Great blog Nige,but,I can't wish for a TV or movie...Great blog Nige,but,I can't wish for a TV or movie version of Godot.<br />Even with the current classic cast<br />the play would lose it's innate intimacy,not too mention,which I'm about to,it's theatricality.Not a word Sam would have gone for.kenny8bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02267559301207477490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-49848369661454537622009-04-15T10:56:00.000+01:002009-04-15T10:56:00.000+01:00THanks Malty - here's hoping it turns up on TV or ...THanks Malty - here's hoping it turns up on TV or film, or anything that means I don't have to haul myself to a theatre...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-52219383061614763962009-04-14T19:19:00.000+01:002009-04-14T19:19:00.000+01:00Nige, it being Godot, summing up will come first.
...Nige, it being Godot, summing up will come first.<br />Both cast and packed audience (at Edinburgh's Kings, a fine old theatre) had a rollicking good night, Sam would have been proud of us all.<br />The actors were thoroughly enjoying themselves and the atmosphere was quickly taken up by the audience.<br />Stewart and Mckellen made a splendid Vaudeville pair ably abeted by Callow's Pozzo, whom the director had obviously managed to restrain from his more usual thespish excesses, Ronald Pickups Lucky was a joy, the crazed monologue was riveting.<br />Parick Stewart, whom I have never seen live before was a hilarious Vladimir and Ian McKellen's Estragon was the ideal miserable barefoot old git.<br /><br />All in all, well worth the money.<br />Who's Godot ?, ain't got a clue.<br />On the journey home my daughter who, on these occasions, being in the trade, is normally hyper critical, was in raptures, treating me to a second reading of lucky's speech.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-67307114224959580582009-04-14T17:36:00.000+01:002009-04-14T17:36:00.000+01:00What did you make of Gandalf and Jean Luc, Malty?What did you make of Gandalf and Jean Luc, Malty?Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-18392024483291526352009-04-13T16:40:00.000+01:002009-04-13T16:40:00.000+01:00Thanks Dave - I wonder if Norfolk's other distingu...Thanks Dave - I wonder if Norfolk's other distinguished resident, B. Appleyard, knows him...<BR/>I've never enjoyed Godot as much as I (feel I) should - but that's probably mostly down to my violent aversion to actors and all thing theatrical.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-75830914756730556642009-04-13T15:33:00.000+01:002009-04-13T15:33:00.000+01:00About Gandalf and Jean Luc doing Godot, see Henry ...About Gandalf and Jean Luc doing Godot, see Henry Gee's <A HREF="http://cromercrox.blogspot.com/2009/04/come-in-godot-your-time-is-up.html" REL="nofollow">Come In Godot, Your Time Is Up</A>Dave Lullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053227199985293516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-52078632132048644042009-04-13T14:15:00.000+01:002009-04-13T14:15:00.000+01:00Wow -- that is a great piece of writing. Dovetails...Wow -- that is a great piece of writing. Dovetails with Eliot's riff on the cruelties of April, the spring rain stirring the dull roots....Susan B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-57960700813157744442009-04-13T12:59:00.000+01:002009-04-13T12:59:00.000+01:00I wanted to see Gandalf and Jean Luc doing Godot w...I wanted to see Gandalf and Jean Luc doing Godot when they were in Bath, Malty, but tickets didn't make themselves sufficiently easily available to me. I wonder if perhaps they might act a bit too much though. Let us know, anyway.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-34872514330989092502009-04-13T11:23:00.000+01:002009-04-13T11:23:00.000+01:00Thanks for that Nige, hadn't realised that today w...Thanks for that Nige, hadn't realised that today would have been his birthday, my daughter is hauling me off tonight to see Gandalf and Jean Luc do Godot, makes the evening rather poignant.<BR/><BR/>Will raise a glass to him after the show, in the boozer.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.com