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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1966)
The Latest Dramatic Hit Waiting for Godot' Can Be Tirina IIv STEVE DIMKO Entertainment Editor Scene: The troubled, tired, thought wrought thalamus of a critic who answers not infrequently to Steve Dimco. The set symbolically one of broken rocks is blemished by the presence of two char nrters in derby hats, AVANT and GAKDK, and a more shadowy tlgure called DIMKO who is staring blankly towards stage left AVANT: What’re you doing? DIMKO: Waiting for ‘ Waiting for Godot" to get over. OAltDK: Why are you waiting for Waiting for Godot to get over9 DIMKO: I'm waiting for "Waiting for Godot” to get over because it is very tiring AVANT: Why is waiting for "Waiting for Godot" very tiring? DIMKO: Waiting isn't so much tiring as "Waiting" itself is. GARDE: Why is "Waiting" so tiring9 DIMKO Because it is tautological, redundant and otherwise repetitious. AVANT: But certainly it has its assets It's unique for one GAKDK: And for all (Knter ID secretly ) AVANT: So the least you can do is boast of its plot GAKDK: Yes, it's plot ID (aside) Plot! DIMKO: Excellent transition Two bums, Gogo (Mark Sherman) and Didi (Peter M Jamison), wait on a country road every evening before nightfall for the mysterious Godot who is never seen but is once described by the little boy emissary (Jeffrey Klberson) no further than as having a white board The lirst day the bums befriended the passing Pozza (David K Steiner) who masters brutally and utterly an ugly old slave by the name of Kucky (Ron Reed). ID (lecherously): Sadism' DIMKO: After persecuting Kucky who has the questionable ability to think and talk endlessly and meaninglessly (typical philoso pher), Poaao and Kucky pass on The next day Pozzo comes through again but he is changed, he is now blind. Kucky now, he says, is quite dumb And again they pass on But the two bums whose inseparability hints of human bondage— ID (unnaturally): Homo sapiens! DIMKO: wait together again because they have nothing better to do. Very avant garde AVANT. GARDE Hear, hear! DIMEO: But two and a half hours of all that is a bit much. AVANT: But funny it is sometimes. GARDE: Yes. funny it is sometimes. Tell them how funny it is. IMMhO: It has its moments. Let’s look at the funny aspects for a moment. fAll three characters stare into the audience for a long and silent moment.) flood. That’s enough. AVANT: And how about how refreshing it is. How good the first act was OARDE: Yes. And how about how— (Pauses, trying to remember) Yes. Ditto. DIMEO: The first act is very entertaining—repetition and all. ID (aside): The first act; Repetition and all; DIMEO (pensively): Will night never come? Will “Waiting’ never end? AVANT, GARDE: And the acting? DIMEO: Adequate hut not superior. It doesn’t get in the way of the obscure scrip! Steiner, who played last year in Fry’s “A Phoenix Too Frequent," is a little ahead of the rest though Reed’s brief dramatic outburst drew clapping bursts out of the audience. But you can’t blame the boots for the fault of the feet. (Enter SUPEREGO.) ID (religiously): But where did all the females go? SUPEREGO (religiously): Let us not be blind to the fact— DIMEO: The blind have no notion of time. It’s the little things in life that matter. Waiting and "Waiting” get nowhere. SUPEREGO: —that it has deep religious significance. II) (to SUPEREGO): Shut up, pig! SUPEREGO: The naked weeping willow, the feeble attempts of the bums to hang themselves therefrom, the persecuted Lucky, the Christ and cross references, the sole of light_ DIMEO: Oh, yes. The lighting is very effective. ID (licentiously): But where are the (slobber! pant! drool!) girls? SUPEREGO: Shut up, pig! DIMEO: Will night never come? AVANT, GARDE: Oh, come now! Why don't you wait and be patient? DIMEO: "Waiting" never gets anywhere I wait for something much better That'll get somewhere. I know what I’m waiting for. Will night never come? AVANT, GARDE: Oh, well. At least it passed the time. Browsing Room Sets Irish Writer Benedict T. J. Kiely, a noted Irish author, will be featured dur ing a Festival of Arts Browsing Room program Wednesday at the University. Kiely, writer-in-residence at the University, read from h i s own works at 7.30 pm. in the SU Browsing Room. The Dublin-born author was ed ucated at Trinity College. He was a journalist for 25 years and has written articles for “T h e New Yorker” and “Kenyon Re view.” His first book, published in 1945 when he was 26, is a political history of the partition of Ireland, and he has written 11 books in all. Ills recent novels are “T h e Captain with the Whiskers,” “Honey Seems Bitter,” "T h e Cards of the Gambler,” and “There Was An Ancient House.” Included in his works is a bi ography entitled, “Poor .Scholar: A Biography of Carleton,” the story of another Irish novelist. He is currently working on a book of short stories called “A Journey to the Seven Streams.” Kiely was literary editor for a Dublin newspaper before coming to Virginia last year as a visit ing professor at Hollins College. Sylvan Karchmer, professor of English at the University, will be the discussion leader for the pro gram. THIRD ANNUAL EUROPE $450 JET CHARTER FLIGHT CALL 342-2772 Universities Organize Viet Nam Road Show WASHINGTON <CI’S) — A group of students from three Washington universities has won appro\al from the State Depart merit of an idea to show soldiers in Viet Nam that "students care." The students are organizing a road show and will go to Viet Nam, at government expense, in either April or June Final word from the State Department on the script for the show, and whe ther the group will tour during its break in April or immediate ly after graduation in June, has not come through as yet. Two scripts have been pre pared and the State Department will decide which one is to be used One is a straight musical comedy on the "boy meets girl” theme and the other is a series of shorts based on the "That Was the Week that Was" format That idea originated with Hob Johnson, an American University junior, who decided students "should do something" about Vi et Nam. The idea came, he said, after a series of petitions went around the AU campus last No vember. Johnson took his idea to sever al professors and one of them presented it to Presidential assis tant McGeorgc Bundy. Bundy re ferred the matter to the Viet Nam desk of the State Depart ment, and Johnson appeared be fore the Psychological Warfare Committee, the multi - agency group that handles matters re lating to war zones. The committee was favorably impressed and recommended the idea, and the official invitation came from the U.S. ambassador in South Viet Nam, Henry Cabot Lodge. Alpha Phi Elects Alpha Phi elections were held for officers for the 1966-67 year. The new officers are: President, Lynne Myers; vice president-pledge trainer, Karen Nilsen; vice-president-scholarship, Diane Dehner; Standards, Mary Lindgren; treasurer, Anne Guer in; membership chairman, Mary Beth Yerkovieh; social chairman, Dana Foote. Auditions are now being held to till the cast of the road .show at American, Georgetown Uni versity, and Howard University. A cast of about 65 will eventually be chosen and a staff of 11 will also make the trip. The number of performances and the itinerary has yet to be decided by the State Depart ment. Jazz Trio to Play In PL-3 Arts Show The television series, "T h e Performing Arts" will present the Pete Mortenson Trio, one of the Willamette valley's outstand ing jazz trios, during their pro grams at 8 p m. today and Thurs day, on PL-3. The trio, also currently ap 1 pearing at the Captain's Table restaurant in Eugene, includes ! Pete Mortenson on piano, Stan Ithees on drums, and Glen Moore on bass. The programs can be seen only j on PL-3 and Abar Channel 11, to j day and Thursday. 72ft«74l2 EzUge:»JE= ii ciiivMD oh 'iiMiti fire llimtl IICIIl J’4 VFMK/II10 PRIVE.III W THEATRE Open 7 p.m. First Run Feature All Color Program at 7:15 and 11:15 RED LINE 7000 - ALSO - at 9:45 only DANA ANDREWS TERRY MOORE in TOWN TAMER Blood Bank The I-one Memorial Mix*! 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