we saw Waiting for Godot last night—don’t see much live theater but this was superb. Over in Lebanon NH,
Hanover area so they have the money to hire real first-rate actors. Happy to report that it really works
well after fifty years and on stage. had only seen parts probably of the old bert lahr version on film.
I probably just can’t read plays very well—but on stage in with these terrific actors it was just superb. So
happy to see that it really holds up, stands up, is as great as its reputation. Very funny in a steady
deep belly sort of quiet chuckling mode and then out loud every so often. Bleak too but/and about
as bleak as reaching 65 is pretty much. For about two hours afterwards we felt that every move we
made was another extension of the play itself. Good effect. I know it is also now on broadway and I
am positive I enjoyed this performance much more than I would have the one in NY because Celebrity
would interfere with your pleasure in the script and performances. You are always saying to yourself
that is John Goodman playing Pozzo & isn’t he great & there is the famous Nathan Lane etc etc. It
has always been so I suppose in theater—all the greats of the history of theater—-and yet our
sense of media celebrityhood feels even more distracting and vapid. Anyway, I enjoyed these
actors tremedously and second again your paen of a few weeks ago to these professionals who stay
with their careers and survive somehow in a world that is not at all supportive of theater these days.
