..., Hamm and Clov, playing the Andre Gregory's visiting production final game of their life together, namely, of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, starring dying. Endgames, final games, posit David Hurst and Ron Leibman, was earlier...

... that the spectator experiences is the thematic blind and crippled. Nagg and Nell, who are Beckett’s Endgame for the Group Animation intent that lies behind Marcel Delval’s use of Hamm’s parents - Hamm was also the name Thestre last June in Brussels, his choice of the building. When Clov (‘John Dobrynine...

... at top volume during all of Clov’s initial activi- ty, which John Bottoms performs frenetical- ly, bare-chested, like a primitive dance...

... in Clov’s pants is enough to send Hamm into fits of rage: “But humanity might start from there all over again! Catch him for the love of God!” (33). Clov is urgently dispatched to the kitchen in search of insecticide. Simi- larly, Hamm will call for the extermination of a lone house rat. But Beckett’s...

... tion, the three of us will languish there Hamm asks Clov for “a few words” to insistence on constantly weakening on the hillside. Is translation possible? sum up at the end of Endgame, Clov himself (he claims the French language In whom can we place our faith? responds with a sarcastic...

.... last! * The titles are subtly ironic: one might ex- pect a play called Thedre I to resemble a late Unlike Hamm and Clov, A and B have never work such as That Tim, but both Thater I met before and we watch their first...

... understandably tion with overt reference to Beckett's work. overlooked some aspects of his writing. The In it, characters from the plays group around production's stylistic achievements are solid the stage: Pozzo and Lucky in one corner, and satisfying if a trifle self-absorbed; Marin Ham and Clov...

... away from a companion, probably a Lucky and Clov for New York audiences in lover, who may or may not have died. Sub- 48 Rand Mitchell (left) and David Warrilow in Samuel Bcckett’s Ohio Impromptu, directed by Man Schncider, New York, 1983...

... of events in the plays and events outside the theater was articulated by the gallows humor of Leais Fool, Beckett s Hamm and Clov. The clowns to whom Rtmy devoted his attention lived in a world simpler and more elegant than the postwar Europe for which Becke t t wrote Waitingfor Godot - the play Jean...

... by Shakespeare and Beckett amounted to a new Book OfJob performed by clowns. T h e madness of events in the plays and events outside the theater was articulated by the gallows humor of Leais Fool, Beckett s Hamm and Clov. The clowns to whom Rtmy devoted his attention lived in a world simpler and more elegant...

...;' he says, "is in the play, it's generational: Clov is still alive, and maybe the little to put the director in contact with what I think the playwright's boy will come in and serve him. At which point a little girl in the original intention is or was; I try to communicate what the play means front...

... on the horizon? CLOV (exasperated): What in God’s name could there be on the horizon? -Samuel Beckett, Endgame I recently saw Leni Riefenstahl’s The Triumph of the Will and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah in near succession. The vertical axis of the former was composed of soaring church spires, flying...

... guest production, Fall, 1966): Ron Leibman and David Hurst as Clov and Hamm. 19 In our own time, what would be the status of Waiting for Godot, if we did not believe it rendered a state of soul which...

... a Lucky and Clov for New York audiences in lover, who may or may not have died. Sub- 48 ...

...], and as such requires that this last extremity of human meat — or bones — be there, thinking and stumbling and sweating, under our noses, like Clov and Hamm, but gone from refuge.8 Beckett’s critics have frequently followed him in insisting on the lengths to which he insisted on keeping “our genres...

...) as the these exercises to create a common JoAnne suggests that he try the speech ’Ibtor (Morgan Duncan) checks off each vocabulary for the actors, to encourage as if he were doing some of Clov’s lines item: pants, coat, etc. JoAnne describes them to perform as a unit, and to in Endgame: dead, emotionless...