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Uploaded by on Feb 12, 2006

text from samuel beckett

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  • Genius actor! Last of the Mohicans Grand Theatre Arts

  • Just watched this now. With only one viewing, the combined power of the words, Irons' voice and delivery is overwhelmingly powerful. I reckon I'll be watching this many times again to fully "get it", as it were.

    Brilliant.

  • Steve is not happy with the process so far.

  • @CCDevlin Splendid.

  • @stucoy1 I think it's quite obvious that the two characters represent one person. The reader is clearly himself and every night over and over he tells himself this sad tale. I think the point is that he feels the pain of what the reader says every day, never deminishing in severity.

  • @colm144 He did, most of the things stipulated above, dates excluded, also, with his Father. Splendid recognition though. All the best.

  • I always felt this was about becketts relationship with james joyce, the two were quite close during the writing ofinnegans wake, and it is believed that during this period joyce was both mentally and physically falling to pieces. Joyce and Beckett would walk the length of the isle of swans near his home in france (Zurich) often times never a word shared between them, it should be noted that on some of Becketts visits to joyce the two would often sit together in complete silence for hours

  • If the interpretation of Beckett's play moved people deeply, then why would Beckett mind? While the character in the play's directions is supposed to be old (correct?), there are some of us who feel very old at a younger age. Jeremy Irons did an amazing job with the text.

  • I love Jeremy Iron's voice. It sounds so awesome for this.

  • I believe it is lovely, that as readers, we enjoy this. One can simply fall into a void, reading, listening, perhaps even living dialogue, awaiting a shade to comfort one. Nothing ever dies, does it?

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