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In today’s New York Times, Jonathan Kalb examines Beckett’s influence on the current generation of playwrights:
SOME years back, the playwright Tony Kushner amused a conference audience by talking about two different types of theatrical enterprises: “lasagna” dramaturgy and “matzo” dramaturgy.
His own plays, like “Angels in America,” clearly fell into the lasagna category, he said, providing a grandiose, chewy and multilayered immersion in particular social realities. Matzo drama, by contrast, was thin and spare; it required what Mr. Kushner called a “spiritual discipline” that he didn’t feel equal to, and to him the quintessential “matzo of a playwright” was Samuel Beckett.
I can’t read on, I’ll read on, here.
Mickey Birnbaum
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