Playing Bare [1993]
(Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1993)
Original
Résumé Feeling drained, a 30-year-old actress who has played all the great roles for women her age,
decides to stage Waiting for Godot, casting herself as Lucky, the play's most minimal, most repressed character. For the roles of Vladimir and Estragon, she casts two strangers whose lives bear an uncanny resemblance to Beckett's characters. Extrait « VICTOR, lyrical: So Etienne and Victor made their entrance. And started to act. / ETIENNE, disgusted: Etienne put his whole soul into trying to get his boot off. / VICTOR: And Victor abandoned his life to become his character. / ETIENNE: And when Pipo was supposed to enter with Luce. / VICTOR: When Pozzo was supposed to let out a cry to announce his entrance with Lucy. » Revue de presse "This is a damn good play about theatrelife and it is occasionally side-splittingly funny." Gaëtan Charlebois, Montreal Mirror, February 25, 1993. |