He started the conversation with Mr. Morris by suggesting “Come and Go,” a three-minute work for three women, from 1965. Then Mr. Morris added “Catastrophe,” from 1982, which Beckett dedicated to the then-imprisoned Czech writer Vaclav Havel. “The work is so open to other art forms; it doesn’t have to be theater practice only.”This kind of lateral thinking about Beckett is characteristic of the Happy Days festival. “Beckett directed many of his own plays and always brought out the musicality of the work,” Mr. Knowlson said in an email. “Often his productions became works to which the word ‘balletic’ could be applied with an emphasis on repetition and echo of movements.

Source: International New York Times July 05, 2019 21:33 UTC