Samuel Beckett's 1953 Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter's 1975 No Man's Land rank high on the list of the world drama's enigmatically existential talkfests, placing two aged and futureless characters together in a desolate no man's land with no exit. The authors mix bleak despair with comic patter, which at times approaches vaudeville style, making the plays catnip for a certain caliber of star actor. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart -- knighted Sirs who spent decades toiling in the theatre be...
Samuel Beckett's 1953 Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter's 1975 No Man's Land rank high on the list of the world drama's enigmatically existential talkfests, placing two aged and futureless characters together in a desolate no man's land with no exit. The authors mix bleak despair with comic patter, which at times approaches vaudeville style, making the plays catnip for a certain caliber of star actor. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart -- knighted Sirs who spent decades toiling in the theatre be...
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