Saturday, March 31, 2018

Beckett

No one doubts that Sam Beckett was among the greatest playwrights of our time. Tom Mcintyre compares him to Shakespeare. He was Anglo- Irish and went to Trinity College in Dublin but lived in Paris nearly all his life, where he was a hero of the Resistance. He had one of the all- time great faces:

Probably his his greatest play is "Endgame" (the serious contenders sre "Waiting for Godot" and (?) "Krapp's Last Tape". Tom has had the good fortune to appear in "Endgame" in Sheridan WY this week.










Years ago my artist - fisherman friend Dellas Henke from Michigan had the good fortune to run into Beckett in Paris and get his Godot signed...

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