"Nothing to do." This is what carries throughout this amazing play. Vladimir and Estragon spend the entire play having to do nothing - a very taxing and unending task. Out of it comes some dazzling verbal play, some touching acts of kindness, some disturbing inhumanity, and throughout an unblinking keen insight into life. At great play.
Big Frank watched it last night and was blown away. He hadn't seen it in years and for some reason it touched him much more this time than in previous. Maybe having waited a number of years to see "Waiting for Godot" made it better.
Here are a few of Big Frank's favorite quotations from the play.
"We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener."
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
"There's no lack of void."
"What are we doing here, that is the question."
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