The Dying Merchant scene last night was lifted almost straight from Becket's Waiting for Godot, down to having a famous Becket actor play the merchant. I love geeky shit like that:
http://observationdeck.io9.com/waiti...ium=socialflow
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BARRY MCGOVERN! They gave him lines almost right out of the play —
"Where else to sit"
"Who were they?" "I stopped asking a while ago."
"Bad way to go. Haven't you had enough?" "Of what? I know. Time to go."
"So why go on?" "Habit."
"Nothing could be worse than this." "Maybe nothing is worse than this."
"Nothing isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just nothing."
"You give me. I give you. Fair. A balance. No balance anymore."
Nobody does Beckett on stage like McGovern — he's one of the finest interpreters of Beckett's work today, possibly ever. He's also a lovely person. I went through the same program at Trinity that Benioff and Weiss did, and got to meet McGovern once after a performance (our teachers were connected; we went to a lot of performances, met a lot of people who wrote, taught or performed works of Irish literature).
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