Review and Critic (What other think)

Hi J

"Samuel Beckett ... obviously knew Endgame was a stupendously boring play and took precautions to keep his audience awake. This Beckettian nightmare makes Waiting for Godot look positively mainstream and giddy”

Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail 

            This very personal and negative criticism was written by Quentin Richard Stephen Letts who is British journalist and theatre critic. Was the play that horrible? Does he really hate Beckett and his works so much? Was he addressing to the play itself or just a performance?

                I am not critic.  Still I would like to defend and support this play (make it more positive ^.^). First of all, Quentin seems to “hate” Beckett’s works in general. He refers to them as Beckettian nightmares and mentioned Beckett’s other work (Waiting for Godot) as something bad and from his tone Endgame is probably even worst. I cannot say that Mr. Letts is wrong. After all, he is the real critic and it is just HIS opinion and if he does not like Beckett, just leave him hating it.

                Absurd plays are weird, that is true but there is reason for it. Just the word ABSURD says that the plays are nothing easy to understand. Not all of us can get it for first time or second or third or ever. The plays are usually difficult to be understand due to the style of it language. The basic concept is to point out that there is lack of communication among the people (as you remember). Another fact is that Absurd plays have no historical context to the plot or any specific information about the characters. That makes everything more difficult and confusing.

                Endgame is no exemption. The play is strange; we do not really know anything specific about the character (at the beginning) and the language that is use is very nonsensical from times. The reason for that is to force the audience to make the rest of the story up and make their own way to understand it.

                In conclusion, the theatre of the absurd is making us (the audience) think about the play. Some people will like it and some people will not. I am not the one who decides for other whether the play is awesome or bad as hell. You are the one who work it out. Hate it or love it…