Thursday, December 3, 2015

Which of Beckett's plays is just three minutes? Is it Come and Go?

Samuel Beckett's very short play (he calls it a
"dramaticule"), Come and Go, totals between 121 and 127 words in
length (depending upon the translation) and lasts only three minutes when performed.
Written by Beckett in 1965, the play premiered in Berlin (in German) in January 1966.
The play made its English-language debut in Dublin, Ireland in February 1966, and it's
British opening at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1968. The cast includes three
longtime women friends--Flo, Vi and Ru--who share a bench and small talk in the
darkness. They trade positions on the bench, with each taking the center at some point,
and the play concludes with them holding hands as a sort of unbroken ring. It is
believed that the play is based on Dublin's Morehampton House, a boarding school run by
three spinsters where two of Beckett's cousins attended during World War
I.

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