Does Fidelity To Beckett’s Text Stifle Beckett As Theatre?

“Perversely, it seems to me, familiarity has made these plays more inaccessible: their visual motifs are so well known beforehand that they are more easily dismissed. Godot is ‘the one where nothing happens’; Endgame is ‘the one with the old pair in the bins’; Happy Days is ‘the one about the woman buried in the sand’.”