'Pattern is as crucial to Beckett's eye as to his ear', writes
Gontarski, 'and that patterning dominates his theatrical notes: motion
is repeated to echo other motion, posture to echo other posture,
gestures to echo other gestures, sounds to echo other sounds. The
principle of analogy is fundamental.'
Samuel Beckett directed two separate productions of Endgame, once with
the Schiller Theater Company in Berlin in 1967, and again with the San
Quentin Drama Workshop in 1980. For both productions he prepared
detailed notes that are reproduced here in facsimile for the first time.
Beckett's revisions for both his productions maintain a consistency -
with minor variations to allow for strengths or weaknesses of
particular actors - that make a 'corrected' (Beckett's word) text not
only possible but desirable, a reflection of the substantial amount of
thinking and theatrical testing the work has undergone since its
publication. No previous edition - English, French or German - includes
the complete production-generated changes. This text was approved by
Samuel Beckett.
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