@collectifras Beckett should have written a star trek episode. It would have been the best episode ever. Damn you for raising this possibility after his death.
i love beckett'swork, but did beckett ever write something that was not stripped down to the basic elements, although i do find it engrossing and refreshing ,you could in a way see these plays as exercises for something vast he would one day undertake that pulled in a multitude of elements, Did he ever write anything with a , dare i say it "plotline conventional" . I do see his works as full bodied but did he write anything on a more sweeping, encompassing view, "panoramic" view of life?
I can't pretend to have the slightest idea what Beckett might have written. I do mainly like his longer, more developed plays. Don't care for most of the short ones (this one being an exception obviously). I think all his plays have a sweeping, "panoramic" view of life, especially godot. He just achieves this with very little action or dialog. I can't imagine him writing any other way. I don't think he'd ever want to.
you fall into the trap,you just got put yourself into Sam; I don't like the visuals herein, they distort Beckett, somebody should have caught this;It's really predictable stuff,Matrix, Alien stuff,also the voices should be more natural, so the timbre of their voices are not electronified;the thread of humanism in Beckett is the variations which the voice(s) inhabit, if you mess with that, well you got problems;
I disagree. As a theatrical designer, I think that the futuristic set and obvious influences in dystopia are an extension of the investigation into humanism and how far it can and will go that Beckett is exploring in What Where. I think this performance is an absolutely fantastic take on the script and adds a whole new dimension to the channels of communication. Too much these days is said about being 'too matrixy' or 'too Bladerunner', just because a believable dystopia is created.
this is great stuff, but I was disturbed by the visuals - the original theatre version specified that the stage should remain empty, and here we have this weird futuristic freaky surrounding... o.O
Who is who, where, by whom, I, him, the outher I, himself, not I, not him or nothing related with this... Brave work, absurd, but as you say only with the improvement in sets, ambients and all of that that he spread, grain by grain to our simples requests to experiment being in the void. Ok, absurd.
very nice indeed, but as it was said, you can not mess around with the text, nor the movement at all. It is all in the text, not more not less, that's why it is so hard. But I like this though, it works well as a piece on its own.
The thing with Beckett is that the only thing you *can* really mess with is the visuals. He was too exact (and his estate is too exacting) to allow any leeway with the text - which, here, is so repetitive that I'm glad for the interesting, futuristic visuals.
can't mess with the visuals either! he dictates those too. check out gontarski's edition of the shorter plays to see how beckett did his own tv version.
this is WELL-produced+acted absurdist dystopia, but it has too much influence on the stylized visuals - not enough focus the absurdities of human society that beckett is trying to decipher, which needs more focus on the acting. FINE acting, though
I am cast as Bam in this. I do get that it is minimum outward acting, very subtle.
I can't seem to project and be subtle at the same time, I'm really wrecking my brain with this lol.
PhillyGirl1 1 year ago
this is the biggest piece of shit trash ive ever seen, except for "Not I" of course.
ZoolanderWTF 1 year ago
@ZoolanderWTF Ah well, if you're polarising people you're doing something right
tattvam4 1 year ago
Its Beckett Treck.
Patricklucey5 1 year ago
Is this Beckett or Star Treck ?
collectifras 1 year ago
@collectifras Beckett should have written a star trek episode. It would have been the best episode ever. Damn you for raising this possibility after his death.
mranenome 1 year ago 3
@mranenome omg ur rite...
cApEgUrLzRoX 7 months ago
@mranenome hahaha nicely said
makondoo 5 months ago
i love this so
dekionplexis 2 years ago
Great work! yes! there, i, said it :]
MrSeanMDickinson 2 years ago
Seems like there is a slight "Library of Babel" influence on this interpretation.
Imagist 2 years ago
Damn. I read that story like thirty years ago when I was a kid and forgot all about it. Damn.
mranenome 2 years ago
i love beckett'swork, but did beckett ever write something that was not stripped down to the basic elements, although i do find it engrossing and refreshing ,you could in a way see these plays as exercises for something vast he would one day undertake that pulled in a multitude of elements, Did he ever write anything with a , dare i say it "plotline conventional" . I do see his works as full bodied but did he write anything on a more sweeping, encompassing view, "panoramic" view of life?
bryngOneOn 2 years ago
I can't pretend to have the slightest idea what Beckett might have written. I do mainly like his longer, more developed plays. Don't care for most of the short ones (this one being an exception obviously). I think all his plays have a sweeping, "panoramic" view of life, especially godot. He just achieves this with very little action or dialog. I can't imagine him writing any other way. I don't think he'd ever want to.
mranenome 2 years ago
well done. Nice material from the great master.
wibba 2 years ago
you fall into the trap,you just got put yourself into Sam; I don't like the visuals herein, they distort Beckett, somebody should have caught this;It's really predictable stuff,Matrix, Alien stuff,also the voices should be more natural, so the timbre of their voices are not electronified;the thread of humanism in Beckett is the variations which the voice(s) inhabit, if you mess with that, well you got problems;
herma57 3 years ago
I disagree. As a theatrical designer, I think that the futuristic set and obvious influences in dystopia are an extension of the investigation into humanism and how far it can and will go that Beckett is exploring in What Where. I think this performance is an absolutely fantastic take on the script and adds a whole new dimension to the channels of communication. Too much these days is said about being 'too matrixy' or 'too Bladerunner', just because a believable dystopia is created.
Danf99 3 years ago 2
this is great stuff, but I was disturbed by the visuals - the original theatre version specified that the stage should remain empty, and here we have this weird futuristic freaky surrounding... o.O
Rumpy23 3 years ago
This is one of the better ones from this Channel 4 series. Some of them are so overdone that Beckett's absurdism becomes campy and MTVish.
caucazoidandroid 4 years ago
Who is who, where, by whom, I, him, the outher I, himself, not I, not him or nothing related with this... Brave work, absurd, but as you say only with the improvement in sets, ambients and all of that that he spread, grain by grain to our simples requests to experiment being in the void. Ok, absurd.
vergiliotorres 4 years ago
very nice indeed, but as it was said, you can not mess around with the text, nor the movement at all. It is all in the text, not more not less, that's why it is so hard. But I like this though, it works well as a piece on its own.
imbulapro 5 years ago
The thing with Beckett is that the only thing you *can* really mess with is the visuals. He was too exact (and his estate is too exacting) to allow any leeway with the text - which, here, is so repetitive that I'm glad for the interesting, futuristic visuals.
The more of this series you can post, the better!
redefenestrated 5 years ago
can't mess with the visuals either! he dictates those too. check out gontarski's edition of the shorter plays to see how beckett did his own tv version.
triboomfasa 5 years ago
this is WELL-produced+acted absurdist dystopia, but it has too much influence on the stylized visuals - not enough focus the absurdities of human society that beckett is trying to decipher, which needs more focus on the acting. FINE acting, though
s4mth16ngstr24nge 5 years ago
typo: it has too much ephasis on the stylized visuals, not "too much influence"
s4mth16ngstr24nge 5 years ago
I have to admit I really like the visuals.
mranenome 5 years ago