..., 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...

... by making Hamm think out loud, and (as Nietzsche would have it) with pain, about Zeno’s disquisition on time: “Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap.”h Impossible because endless. Hamm refers to the eternal moment in history “from which...

... have seen of the script’s pxedgaze, tonelessly, which directs the actor not to speak ani- En&ume by Samuel Beckett, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. Clov (John Bottoms, left) and Hamm matedly but is also a bit...

... also - Hamm is blind and I couldn't use was no satisfactory Pozzo. "And really His next play, Endgame, he dedicated to my eyes, I couldn't budge from my arm• there was a kind of work done which Blin. "I was very...

.... 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...

... 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...

... and remaking of the world characteristic of modernist poetics. It reenacts apocalyptic rup- ture in language, in narrative, in its cosmic landscape, and in its very dramatic structure (for every dramatic structure is a modeling of history and a telling of myth). HAMM: And the horizon? Nothing...

... more enthusiastic. In Cleveland, however, they didn’t You once said you were pleased to be his understudy in Mwter want to see this play; they didn’t see what we had to do with them. HamM. The reception was thunderous in Minneapolis. In San Francisco, Yes. however, we might as well not have been...

... 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...

.... His repertory of roles included countless classics until in 1957 he was cast as Hamm in the German-language premiere of Endgame, and he became hooked on Beckett. He Minetti as Faust played Krapp twice in very different productions. He played Pozzo in a production...

...], 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...

..., including the mysterious “Captain 12-pack,” a street schemes. person, who wears a “Hamm’s Beer” carton over his head. At a carnival side show, Lloyd as the barker pitches The Twin Cities audiences adored 21-A with its mixture hairy Bob as “Bobaloo the Beast Child from Borneo,” but of local...

... the loss of God in Prior’s account to that in Samuel Beckett. In Beckett, God’s disappearance is final and irrevocable-Godot will never arrive, we know this, and there will be no miracles in Hamm’s sunken bunker- and this total loss marks his play worlds as postapocalyptic. In Prior’s account...

... Estragon, Hamm, or Krapp, place, and action, is obsolete for the he was made by his dramatist to seethat rather obvious reason that the mirror real life occurred within the infinite held up to nature shows no unity in spaces of his brain. The dentist's appoint- 79 ment...

... 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...

... fribbling away whatever’s left and Beckett’s helpless tyrant, the Hamm of Endgame. Bill’s slow, grist for the mill fading sentence is also Beckettian. The music he listens to is properly meat for the chopper...

...- ing its grieving moments as something like a prophecy of Lear; the King Lear (1962) itself with Scofield offering a baleful prophecy of Hamm and Krapp; Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade (1964), as Brook’s demonstration that he could create theatrical shock pro...

...- ing its grieving moments as something like a prophecy of Lear; the King Lear (1962) itself with Scofield offering a baleful prophecy of Hamm and Krapp; Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade (1964), as Brook’s demonstration that he could create theatrical shock pro...