What Where (1/2)

The play by Samuel Beckett.
The first half. So watch the second half too.
I wouldn't split it, but Youtube insists.

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Film & Animation

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• samuel
• beckett
• what
• where

[collectifras]

Is this Beckett or Star Treck ?

[mranenome]

@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.

[Imagist]

Seems like there is a slight "Library of Babel" influence on this interpretation.

[mranenome]

Damn. I read that story like thirty years ago when I was a kid and forgot all about it. Damn.

[bryngOneOn]

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?

[mranenome]

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.

[Danf99]

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.

[makondoo]

@mranenome hahaha nicely said

[cApEgUrLzRoX]

@mranenome omg ur rite...

[PhillyGirl1]

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.

[tattvam4]

@ZoolanderWTF Ah well, if you're polarising people you're doing something right

[Patricklucey5]

Its Beckett Treck.

[dekionplexis]

i love this so

[MrSeanMDickinson]

Great work! yes! there, i, said it :]