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It\u2019s Theatre Thursday!\nToday\u2019s show is Endgame by Samuel Beckett, playing a double bill with his short\npiece Rough for Theatre II, now at the Old Vic if you like torture<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sort something straight off the bat: this is NOT about the last Avengers movie (which, amazingly enough, I still have not seen. I really do not care anymore about those superheroes. It\u2019s too much). Endgame<\/em> is a famous play by Samuel Beckett, the playwright of \u2018theatre of the absurd\u2019, famed for his dreary, bleak look at the human existence. He did not seem happy. People say his work is ‘tragi-comic’ but I did not get the comic part. He famously said that nothing is funnier than unhappiness\u2026which after seeing this production, I promise you is false: I was very unhappy, and very much not amused. I have never been so close to being sure that a piece of theatre was pranking me as I was during this evening at the Old Vic, nearly shouting \u201coh THIS is the bad place\u201d despite the beloved talent onstage (Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming). I\u2019ve also never seen so many people walk out of a show, unable to wait till an interval or the end, and I\u2019ve seen some shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start with Rough for Theatre II<\/em>, since it\u2019s a little nothing of a show. This production serves a double bill with Beckett\u2019s little one-act that\u2019s about two like, afterlife accountants but not in the brilliant Good Place way, who show up when someone is about to commit suicide and they go through his life and see whether he should or not? At least I think that\u2019s what it\u2019s about. It was odd and vague and incredibly short. Daniel Radcliffe gets to do a lot of box jumps which is fun for him but not for me when watching because I was like I wanna do box jumps instead of watch this. I honestly have to give Beckett props for naming it what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endgame<\/em>, the main course, is one of the most unreasonable pieces of theatre I\u2019ve ever seen. Remember how Alex Borstein did that episode of Friends where she had a one-woman show about why men don\u2019t like her and talked about getting her first period, and Chandler made everyone go see it as punishment? I didn\u2019t know Sammy Beckett but I feel like he really hated theatergoers. He\u2019s the playwright equivalent of Lewis Black\u2019s joke about how airplane seats in economy were created by a guy with scoliosis who is really f-ing pissed. This piece is about an invalid (Alan) and his servant (Daniel) and Alan is mean to Daniel and Daniel has a limp but Alan can\u2019t walk or stand at all and they just are like, waiting for death? It\u2019s considered a sort of sequel to Waiting for Godot and I guess they just replaced Godot with Death. Alan\u2019s parents live in trashcans at the foot of the stage and sometimes they pop up and say nonsense things that are weird and not funny and he replies in ways that are absurd because I guess this is Theatre of the Absurd but just because it has an official title doesn\u2019t make it worthwhile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel is fine, but there\u2019s only so much you can do performance-wise with the material you are given, especially when most of your requirements are carrying a ladder to and fro and climbing up and shimmying down, over and over and over in an act that serves no purpose except to delight people who find delight in incongruous slapstick, a cheap laugh ploy that, of course, works because people love cheap laughs that don\u2019t have anything to do with anything. Alan Cumming is fine, though overly hammy much of the time. But I don\u2019t know what we can ask of them when they are forced to do this absolute nonsense show. Why, why is this considered a great piece of theatre? The only thing I can think of is, it\u2019s about people waiting for the sweet release of death and when you watch it, it\u2019s such torture that the audience feels the yearning for death along with the characters. Is that it, that the show so successfully makes the audience feel what the characters feel so that they too anticipate sweet release from the torment of this show? Is that what he was going for, because if so, man, well done Sammy, what a gottamn masterpiece of pain you\u2019ve created. It\u2019s a f-ing triumph. If he didn\u2019t want us to feel that death was preferable to watching this show for much longer, then I, along with everyone who left, missed something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rough for Theatre II<\/em>\nwas just under a half hour, which means your interval bathroom break comes when\nyou don\u2019t need it, adding to the whole torture vibe of the evening. Endgame<\/em> is then an hour and half, which\nis the exact amount of time it\u2019s safe to watch this show for before one loses\none\u2019s mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Old Vic renovation is fine \u2013 there\u2019s still not enough room in the lobby (what a mess) but the bathrooms in the basement (where you go if you sit in the stalls, so get an aisle towards the back if you need) are better and bigger. Also, they are not defined by gender, just by whether they contain stalls or urinals, which is how every bathroom should be since it\u2019s great for everyone (except men who need to go #2) (hey that\u2019s what Beckett is with this show!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

STAGE DOOR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like all Danny Rad shows, people were SPRINTING to the stage\ndoor in droves, so I skipped out on adding \u2018trampled by horrible crowds\u2019 to the\nnight\u2019s list of agonies. (Also what was I gonna say to them, yeesh.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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