This interdisciplinary course considers the power of the stage by focusing on the elements and contexts of symbolic actions, crossing the lines usually drawn between theater, performance art, and performative acts in culture and everyday life. Theater is a symbolic social space, enacting both the community that unites us and the divisions that keep us apart.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Waiting for Godot - Beckett on Film 1/13
Waiting for Godot can be found on YouTube in 13 parts. This is the first.
This production, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg for the Beckett on Film series, features Irish actors and is undoubtedly a very authentic realization of the play. But it is a film, after all, and makes choices about editing that inevitably pull focus from some aspects of the play while highlighting others. It is true that you don't really get Godot until you've seen a really good production--but equally true that you don't really get it till you've analyzed the text for yourself.
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