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.
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WASHINGTON <CI’S) — A
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merit of an idea to show soldiers
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used One is a straight musical
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